Table 3.

Distribution of causes of death in patients dying during the 11 months of follow up in patients with VTE surviving the first month after VTE diagnosis in comparison with control cohort.

Cause of death	VTE cohort (n = 500) n (%)	Control cohort (n = 716) n (%)
Coronary heart disease (CHD)	49 (9.8)	153 (21.4)
Other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases	63 (12.6)	107 (14.9)
Cancer	280 (56.0)	212 (29.6)
Other non-cardiovascular diseases (respiratory, digestive, urinary, other)	47 (9.4)	129 (18.0)
Unknown	61 (12.2)	115 (16.1)