Table 2 Colorado Veteran population characteristics by mortality type, 2009–2020
Variable | Overall (n = 6948) | Suicide only (n = 1969) | Alcohol-related only (n = 3439) | Drug-related only (n = 922) |  > 1 mortality typea (n = 618) | p valueb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.196 |
 2009–2014 | 3218 (46.3) | 915 (46.5) | 1624 (47.2) | 400 (43.4) | 279 (45.1) |  |
 2015–2020 | 3730 (53.7) | 1054 (53.5) | 1815 (52.8) | 522 (56.6) | 339 (54.9) |  |
Sex |  |  |  |  |  |  < 0.001 |
 Female | 275 (4.0) | 56 (2.8) | 107 (3.1) | 70 (7.6) | 42 (6.8) |  |
 Male | 6673 (96.0) | 1913 (97.2) | 3332 (96.9) | 852 (92.4) | 576 (93.2) |  |
Age |  |  |  |  |  |  < 0.001 |
 18–34 | 628 (9.0) | 382 (19.4) | 56 (1.6) | 130 (14.1) | 60 (9.7) |  |
 35–54 | 1682 (24.2) | 499 (25.3) | 610 (17.7) | 312 (33.8) | 261 (42.2) |  |
 55–64 | 1,928 (27.7) | 320 (16.3) | 1164 (33.8) | 284 (30.8) | 160 (25.9) |  |
 65–74 | 1,603 (23.1) | 337 (17.1) | 1,044 (30.4) | 133 (14.4) | 89 (14.4) |  |
 75 +  | 1,107 (15.9) | 431 (21.9) | 565 (16.4) | 63 (6.8) | 48 (7.8) |  |
Race |  |  |  |  |  |  < 0.001 |
 Asian American or Pacific Islander | 48 (0.7) | 21 (1.1) | 15 (0.4) | 6 (0.7) | 6 (1.0) |  |
 American Indian or Alaska Native | 90 (1.3) | 16 (0.8) | 58 (1.7) | 7 (0.8) | 9 (1.5) |  |
 Black or African-American | 376 (5.4) | 55 (2.8) | 206 (6.0) | 86 (9.3) | 29 (4.7) |  |
 White | 6371 (91.7) | 1866 (94.8) | 3124 (90.8) | 813 (88.2) | 568 (91.9) |  |
 Other and unknown | 63 (0.9) | 11 (0.6) | 36 (1.0) | 10 (1.1) | 6 (1.0) |  |
Ethnicity |  |  |  |  |  |  < 0.001 |
 Hispanic | 854 (12.3) | 137 (7.0) | 548 (15.9) | 108 (11.7) | 61 (9.9) |  |
 Non-Hispanic | 6042 (87.0) | 1815 (92.2) | 2874 (83.6) | 801 (86.9) | 552 (89.3) |  |
 Unknown | 52 (0.7) | 17 (0.9) | 17 (0.5) | 13 (1.4) | 5 (0.8) |  |
Marital status |  |  |  |  |  |  < 0.001 |
 Single/never married | 1195 (17.2) | 350 (17.8) | 512 (14.9) | 207 (22.5) | 126 (20.5) |  |
 Married | 2520 (36.4) | 894 (45.6) | 1129 (32.9) | 302 (32.9) | 195 (31.7) |  |
 Divorced | 2510 (36.2) | 501 (25.5) | 1413 (41.2) | 360 (39.2) | 236 (38.3) |  |
 Widowed | 625 (9.0) | 208 (10.6) | 323 (9.4) | 42 (4.6) | 52 (8.4) |  |
 Unknown | 78 (1.1) | 9 (0.5) | 54 (1.6) | 8 (0.9) | 7 (1.1) |  |
Rurality | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.09 |
 Frontier | 207 (3.0) | 62 (3.1) | 114 (3.3) | 20 (2.2) | 11 (1.8) |  |
 Rural | 803 (11.6) | 248 (12.6) | 393 (11.4) | 97 (10.5) | 65 (10.5) |  |
 Urban | 5938 (85.5) | 1659 (84.3) | 2932 (85.3) | 805 (87.3) | 542 (87.7) |  |
Distressed communities index |  |  |  |  |  |  < 0.0001 |
 Prosperous | 5508 (79.3) | 1556 (79.0) | 2678 (77.9) | 752 (81.6) | 522 (84.5) |  |
 Comfortable | 194 (2.8) | 60 (3.0) | 100 (2.9) | 17 (1.8) | 17 (2.8) |  |
 Mid-tier | 485 (7.0) | 142 (7.2) | 254 (7.4) | 49 (5.3) | 40 (6.5) |  |
 At risk | 556 (8.0) | 169 (8.6) | 284 (8.3) | 79 (8.6) | 24 (3.9) |  |
 Distressed | 205 (3.0) | 42 (2.1) | 123 (3.6) | 25 (2.7) | 15 (2.4) |  |