Table 2.
Cause of death of women living in Scotland recruited to the RCGP Oral Contraception Study
| Cause of death | ICD–8 codes | Total |
Number of cigarettes smoked daily at recruitment
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-smokers (n = 2063), n (%)a | <15 (n = 1142), n (%)a | ≥15 (n = 916), n (%)a | |||
| Any reason | 000–999, all E | 648 | 199 (9.6) | 211 (18.5) | 238 (26.0) |
|
| |||||
| All cancer | 140–209 | 287 | 91 (45.7)b | 97 (46.0)b | 99 (41.6)b |
|
| |||||
| Cancer site | |||||
| Large bowel and rectum | 153, 154 | 25 | 11 (5.5) | 4 (1.9) | 10 (4.2) |
| Gallbladder/liver | 155, 156 | 2 | — | 1 (0.5) | 1 (0.4) |
| Lung | 162 | 78 | 9 (4.5) | 23 (10.9) | 46 (19.3) |
| Breast | 174 | 50 | 28 (14.1) | 16 (7.6) | 6 (2.5) |
| Invasive cervix | 180 | 6 | 2 (1.0) | 3 (1.4) | 1 (0.4) |
| Uterine body | 182 | 6 | 2 (1.0) | 3 (1.4) | 1 (0.4) |
| Ovary | 183 | 18 | 11 (5.5) | 6 (2.8) | 1 (0.4) |
| CNS/pituitary | 191, 1943 | 4 | 1 (0.5) | 3 (1.4) | — |
| Site unknown | 199 | 32 | 6 (3.0) | 12 (5.7) | 14 (5.9) |
| Other | 140–209c | 66 | 21 (10.6) | 26 (12.3) | 19 (8.0) |
|
| |||||
| Diabetes mellitus and endocrine diseases | 240–289 | 14 | 4 (2.0) | 8 (3.8) | 2 (0.8) |
|
| |||||
| All circulatory disease | 390–458 | 192 | 57 (28.6) | 65 (30.8) | 70 (29.4) |
| Ischaemic heart disease | 410–414 | 99 | 25 (12.6) | 30 (14.2) | 44 (18.5) |
| Other heart disease | 420–429 | 13 | 7 (3.5) | 5 (2.4) | 1 (0.4) |
| Cerebrovascular disease | 430–438 | 47 | 11 (5.5) | 20 (9.5) | 16 (6.7) |
| Other circulatory disease | 390–409, 440–458 | 33 | 14 (7.0) | 10 (4.7) | 9 (3.8) |
|
| |||||
| Respiratory disease | 460–519 | 55 | 11 (5.5) | 11 (5.2) | 33 (13.9) |
|
| |||||
| Digestive disease | 520–577 | 28 | 5 (2.5) | 10 (4.7) | 13 (5.5) |
|
| |||||
| Violence | 800–999, E800–999 | 20 | 10 (5.0) | 4 (1.9) | 6 (2.5) |
|
| |||||
| All other causes | All codesc | 52 | 21 (10.6) | 16 (7.6) | 15 (6.3) |
a
Percentage of women dying in group.
b
Percentage of all deaths in that group.
c
Except those codes listed above. CNS = central nervous system. ICD–8 = International Classification of Disease 8th revision.