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. 2008 Jun 17;5(6):e125. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050125

Figure 2. Age-Standardized Mortality Rates (A) and Burden of Disease Rates (B) for Mexico and Its Regions, Divided by Disease Category.

Figure 2

For comparison, the figure also shows mortality rates for all high-income and low-and-middle-income countries [52]. All rates are standardized to the 2000 national population of Mexico. Regions used to present results are: Northern: Baja California, Baja California Sur, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Sonora, Tamaulipas; Pacific Central: Aguascalientes, Colima, Jalisco; Central: Durango, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tlaxcala, Zacatecas, and parts of Mexico State not in the Mexico City region; Mexico City: Distrito Federal and parts of Mexico State in the contiguous urban area; Gulf: Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatán; Southern: Chiapas, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, and Puebla (Table S1). Key: Ca, cancers; Cir, liver cirrhosis; Com, communicable; CVD, cardiovascular; DM, diabetes; Inj, injuries; Mat, maternal, perinatal, and nutritional; NCom, other noncommunicable; NP, neuropsychiatric.