Table 5 Causes of death among 62 patients with ulcerative colitis: a population based study, Olmsted County, Minnesota, 1940–2004.
| Causes of deaths (ICD‐9) | Women | Men | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observed deaths | Expected deaths | SMR | 95% CI | Observed deaths | Expected deaths | SMR | 95% CI | |
| Infections (001–139) | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0–7.4 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0–4.0 |
| Cancer (140–239) | 5 | 8.2 | 0.6 | 0.2–1.4 | 10 | 11.0 | 0.9 | 0.4–1.7 |
| Intestinal cancer (152–154) | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | <0.1–5.3 | 4 | 1.2 | 3.3 | 0.9–8.4 |
| Pancreas cancer (157) | 1 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 0.1–13 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0–7.4 |
| Pulmonary cancer (162) | 0 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0–2.4 | 2 | 3.9 | 0.5 | 0.1–1.9 |
| Malignant melanoma (172) | 0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0–40 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0–20 |
| Leukaemia (204–208) | 0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0–13 | 2 | 0.4 | 5.2 | 0.6–19 |
| Diseases of blood and blood‐forming organs (280–289) | 0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0–26 | 1 | 0.1 | 7.1 | 0.2–39 |
| Nervous system (320–359) | 2 | 0.7 | 3.1 | 0.4–11 | 1 | 0.7 | 1.5 | <0.1–8.3 |
| Diseases of the circulatory system (390–459) | 8 | 18.1 | 0.4 | 0.2–0.9* | 15 | 18.9 | 0.8 | 0.4–1.3 |
| Respiratory diseases (460–519) | 4 | 2.9 | 1.4 | 0.4–3.5 | 2 | 3.6 | 0.6 | 0.1–2.0 |
| Pneumonia (485) | 3 | 1.3 | 2.2 | 0.5–6.5 | 0 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0–3.2 |
| COPD (490–496) | 0 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0–3.2 | 2 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.1–3.7 |
| Gastrointestinal and liver diseases (520–579) | 2 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 0.2–5.5 | 4 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 0.7–6.2 |
| Genitourinary tract diseases (580–629) | 2 | 0.7 | 2.7 | 0.3–10 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0–6.1 |
| Suicide (950–959) | 0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0–16 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | <0.1–5.6 |
| Accidents (800–949) | 1 | 0.9 | 1.2 | <0.1–6.5 | 1 | 2.0 | 0.5 | <0.1–2.8 |
| All other causes | 2 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.1–3.4 | 1 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.1–2.4 |
| Total | 26 | 36.3 | 0.7 | 0.5–1.1 | 36 | 42.9 | 0.8 | 0.6–1.2 |
*95% confidence interval excluding 1.0 (p<0.05).
SMR standardised mortality ratio; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.