Table 5. Trends in non-communicable disease mortality rates per 100,000 by gender and age group.

		Female MRa	Male MRa	RRfem (95% CI)	χ2	P value	M:F Ratio
15–24y	2003	141	128	1.10 (0.58–2.09)	0.09	0.76	0.91
	2004	169	105	1.62 (0.85–3.08)	2.17	0.14	0.62
	2005	56	82	0.68 (0.28–1.66)	0.73	0.39	1.46
	2006	153	81	1.90 (0.94–3.83)	2.28	0.13	0.53
	2007	109	132	0.83 (0.43–1.60)	0.31	0.58	1.21
	2008	118	117	1.01 (0.53–1.95)	0.00	0.97	0.99
	2009	95	140	0.68 (0.34–1.33)	1.29	0.26	1.47
	χ2 LTb	1.49	0.63	MHRRc 1.07 (0.83–1.38); Summary χ2 0.21; p = 0.65
	P value	0.22	0.43
15–19y	2003	58	76	0.76 (0.24–2.39)	0.2	0.64	1.31
	2004	104	76	1.37 (0.51–3.68)	0.4	0.53	0.73
	2005	47	74	0.63 (0.18–2.14)	0.6	0.45	1.57
	2006	97	54	1.79 (0.59–5.48)	1.1	0.45	0.56
	2007	60	118	0.50 (0.18–1.45)	1.7	0.19	1.97
	2008	69	95	0.73 (0.26–2.05)	0.4	0.55	1.38
	2009	72	131	0.55 (0.21–1.46)	1.5	0.22	1.82
	χ2 LTb	0.018	2.28	MHRRc 0.81 (0.55–1.20); Summary χ2 0.9; 0.34
	P value	0.93	0.13
20–24y	2003	272	225	1.21 (0.56–2.63)	0.2	0.64	0.83
	2004	272	157	1.73 (0.73–4.07)	1.6	0.21	0.58
	2005	71	97	0.73 (0.20–2.72)	0.2	0.75	1.37
	2006	230	125	1.84 (0.74–4.55)	1.8	0.18	0.54
	2007	176	154	1.15 (0.48–2.77)	0.1	0.76	0.88
	2008	182	150	1.21 (0.51–2.87)	0.2	0.67	0.82
	2009	126	155	0.81(0.31–2.10)	0.2	0.67	1.23
	χ2 LTb	1.83	0.11	MHRRc 1.25 (0.89–1.74); Summary χ2 1.3; p = 0.239
	P value	0.18	0.74

NOTE. RR^fem, Relative risk for females compared with males; CI, confidence interval; χ², chi-squared.

^aMR, mortality rates per 100,000, includes deaths ascribed to injuries, CNS, nutritional, maternal, respiratory, gut, liver, cancers, cardio-vascular, renal/urinary, and diabetes.

^bχ² LT, chi-squared for linear trend.

^cMHRR, Mantel Haenszel weighted relative risk, and Greenlands-Robins 95% confidence intervals.