Table 4 Causes of death among 56 patients with Crohn's disease: a population based study, Olmsted County, Minnesota, 1940–2004.
| Causes of death (ICD‐9) | Women | Men | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observed deaths | Expected deaths | SMR | 95% CI | Observed deaths | Expected deaths | SMR | 95% CI | |
| Infections (001–139) | 0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0–12 | 1 | 0.6 | 1.7 | <0.1–9.6 |
| Cancer (140–239) | 6 | 5.3 | 1.1 | 0.4–2.5 | 10 | 5.7 | 1.8 | 0.8–3.2 |
| Intestinal cancer (152–154) | 3 | 0.6 | 4.7 | 1.0–14 | 3 | 0.6 | 4.7 | 1.0–14 |
| Pancreas cancer (157) | 1 | 0.3 | 3.8 | 0.1–21 | 1 | 0.3 | 3.9 | 0.1–22 |
| Pulmonary cancer (162) | 0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0–3.6 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 0.3–4.4 |
| Malignant melanoma (172) | 1 | 0.1 | 14.8 | 0.4–82 | 1 | 0.1 | 9.6 | 0.2–53 |
| Leukaemia (204–208) | 0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0–20 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0–18 |
| Diseases of blood and blood forming organs (280–289) | 0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0–41 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0–47 |
| Nervous system (320–359) | 0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0–9.1 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0–9.8 |
| Diseases of the circulatory system (390–459) | 11 | 10.8 | 1.0 | 0.5–1.8 | 8 | 10.4 | 0.8 | 0.3–1.5 |
| Respiratory diseases (460–519) | 3 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 0.4–5.0 | 4 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 0.5–5.1 |
| Pneumonia (485) | 0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0–4.6 | 1 | 0.7 | 1.5 | <0.1–8.1 |
| COPD (490–496) | 3 | 0.7 | 4.3 | 0.9–13 | 3 | 1.0 | 2.9 | 0.6–8.5 |
| Gastrointestinal and liver diseases (520–579) | 6 | 0.8 | 7.3 | 2.7–16* | 5 | 0.9 | 5.6 | 1.8–13* |
| Genitourinary tract diseases (580–629) | 0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0–8.4 | 1 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 0.1–16 |
| Suicide (950–959) | 0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0–18 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0–5.8 |
| Accidents (800–949) | 0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0–5.5 | 1 | 1.4 | 0.7 | <0.1–4.1 |
| All other causes | 0 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0–2.6 | 0 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0–2.7 |
| Total | 26 | 22.1 | 1.2 | 0.8–1.7 | 30 | 23.9 | 1.3 | 0.9–1.8 |
*95% confidence interval excluding 1.0 (p<0.05).
COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; SMR, standardised mortality ratio.