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Cause of death from Vital Statistics Department* and based on Verbal Autopsy of 48 000 adult deaths (aged ≥ 25) in Chennai (urban), south India: 1995–97 |
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| Causes of death (ICD9 codes) |
Cause of death in VSD |
Cause of death based on Verbal Autopsy |
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| M (%) |
F (%) |
M (%) |
F (%) |
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| Vascular disease (390–415, 418–459) |
8319 (30) |
5168 (25) |
11056 (41) |
7435 (37) |
| Respiratory tuberculosis (TB) (011, 012, 018) |
1399 (5) |
372 (2) |
2231 (8) |
575 (3) |
| Other respiratory diseases (416, 417, 460–519) |
1088 (4) |
596 (3) |
1597 (6) |
855 (4) |
| Neoplasm (140–239) |
1163 (4) |
1002 (5) |
2344 (9) |
1999 (10) |
| Infection except respiratory & TB (rest of 1–139, 279.8 [HIV], 320-6, 590, 680-6) |
584 (2) |
303 (2) |
1034 (4) |
618 (3) |
| Unspecified medical causes (780-9, 797-9) |
12291 (44) |
115 11 (56) |
4367 (16) |
5889 (29) |
| Other specified medical causes |
1899 (7) |
1045 (5) |
4414 (16) |
2804 (14) |
| No cause given in VSD (hence probably medical) |
983 (4) |
634 (3) |
Nil |
Nil |
| Total deaths – medical |
27 726 |
20 631 |
27 043 |
20 175 |
| Re-assigned by VA to external causes |
*Excluded from the study |
683 |
456 |
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| Total deaths (medical causes+external causes) |
27 726 |
20 631 |
27 726 |
20 631 |
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*Deaths(M: 3644; F:1644) that were assigned by the Vital Statistics Department(VSD) to non-medical causes were excluded from the study | ||||
Gajalakshmi and Peto BMC Public Health 2004 4:47 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-4-47 |
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