Table 4.

Frequencies of Specific Causes of Death in the 1597 Patients Who Died by Year of Death

Cause of death	N = 1876	%
Assigned	1597	85
Could not be assigned	279	15
CoDe cause of death	N = 1597	%
01 AIDS (not further specified)	190	11.9
01.1 AIDS infection	366	22.9
01.2 AIDS malignancy	236	14.8
02 Non-AIDS infection	131	8.2
03 Chronic viral hepatitis	63	3.9
04 Non-AIDS malignancy	189	11.6
05 Diabetes Mellitus	2	0.1
06 Pancreetitis	5	0.3
07 Lactic acidosis	8	0.5
08 Myocardial infarction/ischemic heart disease	51	3.2
09 Stroke	23	1.4
10 Gastro Intestinal haemborrage	12	0.8
11 Primary pulmonary hypertension	2	0.1
12 Lung embolus	10	0.6
13 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	3	0.2
14 Liver failure	50	3.1
15 Renal failure	24	1.5
16 Accidentiviolent	34	2.1
17 Suicide	48	3.0
18 Euthanasia	0	0
19 Substance abuse	42	2.6
20 Haemantological disease	9	0.5
21 Endocrine disease	0	0
22 Psychiatric disease	3	0.2
23 Central nervous system disease	11	0.7
24 Heartivascular	52	3.3
25 Respiratory disease	22	1.4
26 Digestive system disease	2	0.1
27 Skin and motor system disease	0	0
28 Urogenital	1	0.1
29 Obstetric complications	0	0
20 Congenital disorders	0	0
90 Other1	8	0.5

¹8 deaths classified as "other" were: foreign body in respiratory tract, acidosis (2), amyloidosis, instantaneous death, toxic epidermal necrolysis, terminal pulmonary hypertension with arterial occlusion of the extremities, intra-cerebral hematoma