Table 1.
Top 10 diseases with high mortality in Thai population stratified by sex for the year 2004 [22•].
| Rank | Male | Female | ||||
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| Disease | Deaths (‘000) | % | % | Deaths (‘000) | Disease | |
| 1 | HIV/AIDS | 26 | 11.1 | 14.7 | 26 | Stroke |
| 2 | Stroke | 23 | 10.0 | 8.0 | 14 | Diabetes |
| 3 | Traffic accidents | 23 | 9.9 | 6.6 | 12 | Ischemic heart disease |
| 4 | Liver and bile duct cancer | 19 | 8.0 | 6.2 | 11 | HIV/AIDS |
| 5 | COPD | 14 | 5.9 | 4.9 | 9 | Liver and bile duct cancer |
| 6 | Ischemic heart disease | 13 | 5.6 | 3.8 | 7 | Lower respiratory tract infections |
| 7 | Bronchus and lung cancer | 9 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 6 | COPD |
| 8 | Diabetes | 8 | 3.5 | 3.2 | 6 | Nephritis & nephrosis |
| 9 | Cirrhosis | 8 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 5 | Traffic accidents |
| 10 | Lower respiratory tract infections | 7 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 4 | Cervix uteri cancer |