Table 4. Cause-specific mortality fraction for cardiovascular disease, by study setting and WHO region, systematic review of verbal autopsies in low- and middle-income countries, 1992–2022.
| Study setting and WHO region | No. studies | Parameter for people aged ≥ 15 years |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. deaths recorded by verbal autopsy | No. deaths due to cardiovascular disease | Cause-specific mortality fraction for cardiovascular disease, % | |||
| Rural | |||||
| African26,28,30,32,34,35 | 6 | 31 550 | 3 305 | 10.5 | |
| South-East Asia41,42,44,48–50,52 | 7 | 22 116 | 7 090 | 32.1 | |
| Total | 13 | 53 666 | 10 395 | 19.4 | |
| Urban | |||||
| African25 | 1 | 410 | 91 | 22.2 | |
| South-East Asia46,47 | 2 | 2 633 | 688 | 26.1 | |
| Total | 3 | 3 043 | 779 | 25.6 | |
WHO: World Health Organization.