Table 4.
Ten leading causes of deaths from VA and CR, according to the WHO List: Agincourt HDSS, 2006–09 (N = 2137)
| Agincourt HDSS Verbal Autopsy (VA), according to WHO List |
Civil Registration (CR), according to WHO List |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Ten leading causes | % of total | Rank | Ten leading causes | % of total |
| 1 | HIV disease (B20-B24) | 31.4 | 1 | Respiratory tuberculosis (A15-A16) | 16.0 |
| 2 | Respiratory tuberculosis (A15-A16) | 14.8 | 2 | Diarrhoea/gastro, infectious (A09) | 15.6 |
| 3 | Pneumonia (J12-J18) | 5.2 | 3 | Pneumonia (J12-J18) | 10.7 |
| 4 | Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69) | 4.6 | 4 | Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69) | 5.2 |
| 5 | Septicaemia (A40-A41)a | 4.5 | 5 | Other blood & immune disorders (D65-D89) | 4.5 |
| 6 | Meningitis (G00,G03) | 3.8 | 6 | All other external causesb | 3.8 |
| 7 | Diarrhoea/gastro, infectious (A09) | 3.2 | 7 | Other heart diseases (I26-I51) | 3.6 |
| 8 | Other heart diseases (I26-I51) | 3.0 | 8 | Hypertensive diseases (I10-I14) | 3.0 |
| 9 | Symptoms & ill-defined (R00-R99) | 3.0 | 9 | Other acute lower resp. infections (J20-J22) | 3.0 |
| 10 | Transport accidents (V01-V99) | 2.4 | 10 | Symptoms & ill-defined (R00-R99) | 2.7 |
| Top 10 causes as % of total deaths | 76.1 | Top 10 causes as % of total deaths | 68.0 | ||
aSepticaemia is an intermediate cause of death, not an underlying cause of death. Although it is a clearly defined clinical entity, septicaemia has an underlying cause that would have precipitated the chain of events which led to death.46
bW20-W64, W75-W99, X10-X39, X50-X59, Y10-Y89.