Table 3 Cross tabulation of registration and verbal autopsy diagnoses for specific communicable and non‐communicable diseases in rural China, 2002.
| VA diagnosis | Registration diagnoses | Total | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroke | COPD | Other cardiac diseases | IHD | Ill‐defined conditions | Liver cancer | Stomach cancer | Lung cancer | Hypertensive disease | Oesophageal cancer | Liver diseases | Perinatal conditions | Tuberculosis | Pneumonia | Other digestive disorders | Colorectal cancer | Diabetes | Rheumatic heart disease | Congenital malformations | Other cancers | All other diseases | ||
| Stroke | 366 | 33 | 18 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 25 | 497 | ||||||
| COPD | 6 | 131 | 102 | 5 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 297 | |||||
| Other cardiac diseases | 11 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 73 | ||||||||||
| IHD | 15 | 13 | 14 | 68 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 128 | |||||||||||
| Ill‐defined conditions | 40 | 19 | 22 | 31 | 61 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 229 | ||||||
| Liver cancer | 1 | 1 | 71 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 86 | ||||||||||
| Stomach cancer | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 67 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 89 | ||||||||||||
| Lung cancer | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 58 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 79 | ||||||||||
| Hypertensive disease | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 50 | ||||||||||||
| Oesophageal cancer | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 37 | 1 | 52 | |||||||||||||
| Liver diseases | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 28 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 54 | ||||||||||||
| Perinatal conditions | 1 | 4 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 36 | |||||||||||||||
| Tuberculosis | 8 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 50 | ||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 2 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 40 | ||||||||||||||
| Other digestive disorders | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 49 | ||||||||
| Colorectal cancer | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 24 | |||||||||||||||
| Diabetes | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 2 | 29 | |||||||||||||||
| Rheumatic heart disease | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 13 | |||||||||||||||
| Congenital malformations | 1 | 2 | 13 | 3 | 19 | |||||||||||||||||
| Other cancers | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 29 | ||||||||||
| All other diseases | 22 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 425 | 559 |
| Total | 482 | 252 | 224 | 169 | 137 | 92 | 91 | 88 | 59 | 45 | 43 | 36 | 34 | 32 | 31 | 29 | 27 | 22 | 20 | 19 | 550 | 2482 |
COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; IHD, ishaemic heart disease; VA, verbal autopsy.