Table 3.

Cause-specific mortality fractions (in%) by sex and site, AMK HDSS 2004–2010

	Abhoynagar			Mirsarai
Major causes of death	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total
Communicable diseases	16.8	16.6	16.7	21.6	20.7	21.2**
ARI or pneumonia	5.5	8.8*	7.1	8.9	10.0	9.4*
Pulmonary tuberculosis	8.6	3.9**	6.4	10.4	7.3*	9.0**
Other infections	2.7	3.9	3.2	2.3	3.4	2.8
NCD	54.6	58.1	56.2	53.4	56.9	55.3
Stroke	17.8	20.9	19.3	13.8	20.0**	16.5*
Cardiac disease	10.2	7.3	8.9	13.5	9.2**	11.6
COPD or asthma	6.9	5.7	6.3	5.4	4.7	5.1
Neoplasm	12.6	13.8	13.2	13.9	12.3	13.2
Digestive system	4.1	7.5**	5.6	5.1	5.8	5.4
Respiratory system	5.5	1.8**	3.8	6.2	3.4**	5.0
Other neoplasm	3.0	4.6	3.7	2.6	3.0	2.8
Acute abdomen	1.4	2.2	1.8	2.0	4.4	3.1
Liver cirrhosis	1.1	1.5	1.3	1.2	0.7	1.0
Diabetes mellitus	3.1	3.9	3.5	2.9	2.7	2.8
Severe anaemia/malnutrition	0.5	1.1	0.8	0.5	1.2	0.8
Other NCD	1.0	1.6	1.2	0.7	1.7	1.2
Perinatal and neonatal causes	9.1	5.8*	7.6	5.1	5.6	5.3**
Neonatal pneumonia	3.5	2.6	3.1	1.9	1.5	1.7*
Birth asphyxia	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.7	1.3	1.5
Prematurity	1.4	0.2	0.9	0.5	1.1	0.7
Other neonatal cause	2.8	1.5	2.2	1.0	1.7	1.3
Maternal cause	NA	1.8	0.8	NA	2.0	0.9
Injury and other external causes	7.9	7.4	7.7	9.3	5.4	7.5
Accidental drowning	1.6	1.1	1.4	2.2	2.5	2.3
Road traffic accident	1.4	0.5	1.0	3.3	0.2**	1.9*
International self-harm	2.5	5.1**	3.5	1.3	1.7	1.5**
Assault	1.3	0.2*	0.8	1.2	0.4*	0.8
Other external cause	1.4	0.7	1.1	1.3	0.6	1.0
Indeterminatea	11.5	10.2	10.9	10.0	9.4	9.8
Number of deaths	743	641	1,384	1,016	831	1,847

ARI=acute respiratory infection; COPD=chronic obstetric pulmonary diseases; NA=not applicable; NCD=non-communicable diseases.

^aExcluded 17 deaths for which no symptom or sign of illness was record in VA from determining cause of death, but included in the indeterminate.

^*p<0.05

^**p<0.01 (compared between ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ within the site or between totals of sites).