---
title: "List United States Leading Causes of Death records"
method: GET
path: "/v1/data/united-states-leading-causes-death"
tags: ["Public Health"]
---

# List United States Leading Causes of Death records

`GET /v1/data/united-states-leading-causes-death`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.aristocles.com.au` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.aristocles.com.au/v1/data/united-states-leading-causes-death`
- Auth: none declared. Required headers: `X-API-Key`

List United States Leading Causes of Death records with optional filters and pagination.

**Source:** Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics (Public Domain (US Government Work)).

**Fields returned:**
- `year` (int) — Calendar year
- `cause_code_name` (str) — Detailed NCHS 113 cause list name with ICD-10 codes
- `cause_name` (str) — Plain cause of death name
- `state` (str) — US state, District of Columbia or United States
- `deaths` (int) — Number of deaths
- `age_adjusted_death_rate` (float) — Age-adjusted deaths per 100,000 population

**Example:** `GET /v1/data/united-states-leading-causes-death?limit=10&year=42`

## Query parameters

- `limit` integer: Max records to return (1-100).
- `offset` integer: Records to skip, for pagination.
- `year` string, nullable: Calendar year
- `state` string, nullable: US state, District of Columbia or United States
- `cause_name` string, nullable: Plain cause of death name

## Headers

- `X-API-Key` string, required

## Response `200`

A page of United States Leading Causes of Death records with pagination metadata.

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

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