Number of autopsies performed in United States falls

Thursday, Aug. 4 HealthDay News)-the autopsy rate in the United States by about a fifth to an in the 10 Americans from 1972 to 2007, according to a new study of the Federal Republic declined.

This accounts for a 58% drop between 1972 and 2007, from 19.3% to 8.5% of the deaths, noted researchers.

In 1972, 79% of autopsies accounted for death as a result of disease, while due to external causes such as injuries or murder death accounted for 19%. 2007, The respective percentages were found 46% and 50%, the investigators.

External causes of death-including murder, unintentional injuries, suicide or unknown cause-nine of the 10 most common unrolled and Autopsied causes of death in 2007 represented.

In 2007 decreased autopsy rates with age of 60% of 15-up 24-year-55.8% in the 25 to 34 age, 11% according the age people the death of 55 to 64, and 4.2% at the age of 65 to 74, to the study of the National Center for health statistics at the US Centers for disease control and prevention.

The study also reported that while the number of deaths among older people increased from 1972 to 2007 unrolled and Autopsied increasingly deaths in the age groups 1 to 34 and 35 to 64 were concentrated.

Although 91% of deaths in the United States were caused in 2007 due to illness, death from complications of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium (the State of a woman during and up to six weeks after birth) only clustered disease see the 10 most common unrolled and Autopsied was causes of death.

Slightly more than half were deaths from complications of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium 2007 led.

Reasons for changing autopsy prices are deaths, according to the report can be obtained which not clear, but on hospital of accreditation standards, to investigate State laws concerning the deaths and regulations since 1972 study infants.

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