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Table 2 CSMFs by resampled deaths or main MDS deaths at ages 5 to 69 years

From: Performance criteria for verbal autopsy-based systems to estimate national causes of death: development and application to the Indian Million Death Study

 

MDS

Resample

Rank order

OR: resample versus MDSa(95% CI)

Disease

Number

%

Number

%

MDS

Resample

Communicable

        

Malaria

2,094

3.3

40

2.2

13

16

0.8

(0.6 to 1.1)

Tuberculosis

5,714

9.0

139

7.7

3

4

0.9

(0.8 to 1.1)

HIV/STI

439

0.7

8

0.4

18

19

0.6

(0.3 to 1.2)

Other infectious diseasesb

7,005

11.1

234

12.9

2

2

1.3

(1.1 to 1.5)

Maternal conditions

1,053

1.7

14

0.8

17

17

0.5

(0.3 to 0.9)

Nutritional conditions

387

0.6

12

0.7

19

18

1.2

(0.7 to 2.1)

Non communicable

        

Cancer

5,511

8.7

152

8.4

4

3

0.9

(0.8 to 1.1)

Ischemic heart disease

7,557

12.0

239

13.2

1

1

1.0

(0.9 to 1.2)

Stroke (cerebrovascular disease)

4,526

7.2

137

7.6

6

5

1.0

(0.9 to 1.2)

Other CVDc

1,642

2.6

54

3.0

16

15

1.1

(0.8 to 1.5)

Chronic respiratory disease

5,494

8.7

134

7.4

5

6

0.8

(0.7 to 1)

Liver cirrhosis

2,463

3.9

60

3.3

11

13

0.8

(0.6 to 1.1)

Other digestive diseases

2,248

3.6

84

4.6

12

9

1.5

(1.2 to 1.8)

Renal and other endocrine diseases

2,511

4.0

67

3.7

10

11

0.9

(0.7 to 1.1)

Other chronic diseases

1,722

2.7

64

3.5

15

12

1.3

(1 to 1.6)

Injuries

        

Road traffic accidents

1,864

3.0

71

3.9

14

10

1.1

(0.8 to 1.4)

Suicides

2,647

4.2

60

3.3

9

13

0.7

(0.6 to 0.9)

Other injuries

4,497

7.1

134

7.4

7

6

1.0

(0.9 to 1.2)

Ill-defined

3,766

6.0

108

6.0

8

8

1.0

(0.8 to 1.2)

Total

63,140

100

1,811

100

    
  1. aAdjusted for age, sex, religion (Hindu versus not), education (illiterate versus not), state (poorer nine states versus remaining states), rural/urban, and home/hospital death; brespiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, vaccine-preventable diseases, meningitis, encephalitis, tropical diseases, acute bacterial sepsis and severe infections, and other infectious and parasitic diseases; crheumatic and hypertensive heart disease, heart failure, and other cardiovascular diseases. CI, confidence interval; CSMFs, cause specific mortality fractions; CVD, cardiovascular disease; MDS, Million Death Study; OR, odds ratio; STI, sexually-transmitted infections.