TABLE 4.

Age-adjusted mortality rates per 100,000/year in the US and CHS

Cause of death	US Mortality ratea	CHS Mortality rateb	SMRc
All cause	845.3	521.0	0.62**
Illness Death
Heart diseases	240.8	312.1	1.30**
Malignant neoplasms	193.5	34.4	0.18**
Cerebrovascular diseases	56.2	23.7	0.42**
Chronic respiratory diseases	43.5	4.5	0.10**
Diabetes	25.4	2.5	0.10**
Liver diseases	9.4	8.8	0.94
Hypertension	7.0	1.4	0.20*
Aortic aneurysm	5.2	0.7	0.13*
Pulmonary embolism	3.1	2.0	0.65
Gastrointestinal bleeding	2.8	3.8	1.36
Infections/Inflammatory Illness Death
Pneumonia	22.6	35.2	1.56**
Septicemia	11.7	16.6	1.42
HIV	4.9	10.3	2.10*
Meningitis	0.2	1.6	8.00**
Non-Illness/Other Death
Unintended Injury	36.9	24.3	0.66*
Suicide	10.9	14.8	1.36
Drug overdose or withdrawal	9.0	11.5	1.28
Homicide	6.1	4.3	0.70
Ruptured ectopic pregnancyd	12.0	1.2	0.10**

*p < .05; **p < .01, otherwise not significant.

^aAge-adjusted cause-specific mortality rates per 100,000 per year, retrieved from the NVSS by the NCHS.

^bAge-adjusted cause-specific mortality rates per 100,000 inmates per year calculated using the average daily census as a denominator.

^cSMR = [Observed Deaths (the rate in CHS) / Expected Deaths (the rate in the general population)].

^dFemale only, 12 per 1,000 live births.