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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 18.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Infect Dis. 2010 May 15;50(10):1387–1396. doi: 10.1086/652283

Table 2.

Frequencies of Specific Causes of Death According to the Cause of Death (CoDe) Classification in the 1876 Patients Who Died.

Cause of death (N = 1597) N (%) Incidence rate
(95% CI) per 1000 years
AIDS 792 (49.6) 5.12 (4.78–5.49)
   Non-specified AIDS 190 (11.9) 1.23 (1.07–1.42)
   AIDS infection 366 (22.9) 2.37 (2.14–2.62)
   AIDS malignancy 236 (14.8) 1.52 (1.34–1.73)

Non AIDS malignancy 189 (11.8) 1.22 (1.06–1.41)

Non-AIDS infection 131 (8.2) 0.85 (0.71–1.01)

CVD1 126 (7.9) 0.81 (0.68–0.97)
   MI/IHD2 51 (3.2) 0.33 (0.25–0.43)
   Stroke 23 (1.4) 0.15 (0.10–0.22)
   Other heart disease 52 (3.3) 0.34 (0.26–0.44)

Violence3 124 (7.8) 0.80 (0.67–0.96)
   Suicide 48 (3.0) 0.31 (0.23–0.41)
   Substance abuse 42 (2.6) 0.41 (0.32–0.52)
   Other violent death 34 (2.1) 0.22 (0.16–0.31)

Liver-related 113 (7.1) 0.73 (0.61–0.88)
   Hepatitis-related 63 (3.9) 0.41 (0.32–0.52)
   Other liver-related 50 (3.1) 0.32 (0.25–0.43)

Respiratory disease 25 (1.6) 0.16 (0.11–0.24)

Renal failure 24 (1.5) 0.16 (0.10–0.23)

Other causes with N<20 73 (4.6) 0.47 (0.38–0.59)
1

CVD cardiovascular disease (includes MI/IHD, stroke, heart failure/unspecified and other heart disease)

2

MI/IHD myocardial infarction/ischemic heart disease

3

Violent includes homicide, accident, suicide and substance abuse as well as ill-defined violent deaths.