Table 2. Underlying causes of PHD-associated deaths among 605 DSPs in China from 2014 to 2021.
| Underlying cause of death | 2014, n (%) | 2015, n (%) | 2016, n (%) | 2017, n (%) | 2018, n (%) | 2019, n (%) | 2020, n (%) | 2021, n (%) | |||||||
| N*=156,418 | N=142,733 | N=144,424 | N=140,379 | N=133,047 | N=126,552 | N=108,196 | N=103,586 | ||||||||
| Abbreviation: PHD=pulmonary heart disease; DSPs=disease surveillance points. * Total number of PHD-associated deaths. | |||||||||||||||
| Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | 136,725 (87.41) |
131,343 (92.02) |
134,324 (93.01) |
130,864 (93.22) |
123,830 (93.07) |
117,280 (92.67) |
99,918 (92.35) |
93,928 (90.68) |
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| Pulmonary heart disease | 14,161 (9.05) |
5,918 (4.15) |
4,221 (2.92) |
3,767 (2.68) |
3,651 (2.74) |
3,638 (2.87) |
3,423 (3.16) |
5,051 (4.88) |
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| Other primary disease of pulmonary heart disease | 1,353 (0.86) |
1,543 (1.08) |
1,782 (1.23) |
1,867 (1.33) |
1,830 (1.38) |
2,004 (1.58) |
1,643 (1.52) |
1,564 (1.51) |
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| Ischemic heart disease | 937 (0.60) |
802 (0.56) |
845 (0.59) |
770 (0.55) |
851 (0.64) |
727 (0.57) |
647 (0.60) |
702 (0.68) |
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| Tumors | 605 (0.39) |
593 (0.42) |
612 (0.42) |
604 (0.43) |
592 (0.44) |
530 (0.42) |
519 (0.48) |
441 (0.43) |
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| Cerebrovascular disease | 245 (0.16) |
198 (0.14) |
227 (0.16) |
236 (0.17) |
239 (0.18) |
286 (0.23) |
236 (0.22) |
241 (0.23) |
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| Other disease | 2,392 (1.53) |
2,336 (1.64) |
2,413 (1.67) |
2,271 (1.62) |
2,054 (1.54) |
2,087 (1.65) |
1,810 (1.67) |
1659 (1.60) |
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