Table 7.

Most Common Underlying Causes of Deaths for Patients with Prurigo Nodularis with Comparative Data from Matched Controls

Cause of Death	Main Analysis				Sensitivity Analysis
	Prurigo Nodularis		Controls		Prurigo Nodularis		Controls
	Deaths %		Deaths %		Deaths %		Deaths %
Chronic ischaemic heart disease	28	9.9%	17	7.6%	49	7.3%	46	8.5%
Other chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	22	7.7%	7	3.1%	46	6.8%	25	4.6%
Acute myocardial infarction	15	5.3%	13	5.8%	42	6.2%	23	4.3%
Pneumonia, organism unspecified	11	3.9%	13	5.8%	34	5.1%	28	5.2%
Unspecified dementia	11	3.9%	9	4.0%	32	4.8%	30	5.6%
Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung	10	3.5%	7	3.1%	20	3.0%	26	4.8%
Alzheimer's disease	9	3.2%	15	6.7%	21	3.1%	24	4.5%
Atrial fibrillation and flutter	8	2.8%	5	2.2%	15	2.2%	8	1.5%
Heart failure	7	2.5%	<5	—	14	2.1%	7	1.3%
Vascular dementia	7	2.5%	<5	—	13	1.9%	11	2.0%
Malignant neoplasm of colon	7	2.5%	<5	—	12	1.8%	9	1.7%
Stroke, not specified as hemorrhage or infarction	6	2.1%	8	3.6%	12	1.8%	13	2.4%
Other	149	49.6%	—	—	363	53.9%	289	53.6%
Total	284	100.0%	223	100.0%	673	100.0%	539	100.0%