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. 2015 Apr 21;2015(4):CD009699. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009699.pub2

4. Main cause of death (Gregersen 2014).

Cause of death Liberal threshold Restrictive threshold
  30 deaths 40 deaths
Stroke 8 (27%) 2 (5%)
Heart failure 3 (10%) 11 (28%)
Pneumonia 8 (27%) 18 (45%)
Sepsis 3 (10%) 5 (12%)
Dementia 3 (10%) 4 (10%)
Liver failure 5 (17%) 0 (0%)

Percentages do not add up to 100 in the liberal threshold column because of rounding errors