Table 4. Age-adjusted mortality rates (AR) per 100,000 by cause of death, racial/ethnic group, and sex: 36 U.S. States and District of Columbia, 2003–2011 average.

Female	NHW	Aggregate Asian	Asian Indian	Chinese	Filipino	Japanese	Korean	Vietnamese
Cause of Death	AR 1	AR	AR	AR	AR	AR	AR	AR
Diseases of the heart	158.5	88.5	111.8	80.5	95.9	83.3	93.8	72.3
Malignant neoplasms	155.8	91.2	60.4	93.7	89.1	115.9	98.9	76.5
Cerebrovascular diseases	41.2	33.7	28.9	31.7	36.9	32.9	34.7	37.5
Chronic lower respiratory diseases	42.6	9.9	10.8	8.4	11.0	10.9	10.3	9.3
Alzheimer’s Disease	27.0	10.3	6.0	8.6	9.2	16.2	10.3	12.2
Accidents-Unintentional injuries	27.8	10.5	8.8	9.9	9.8	12.6	13.1	10.2
Influenza and pneumonia	15.4	13.3	10.6	14.7	12.1	11.1	16.9	12.2
Diabetes Mellitus	16.7	14.3	17.5	11.7	17.6	12.3	15.8	13.9
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis	10.2	6.4	6.8	5.6	8.56	5.2	5.8	6.4
Septicemia	8.7	3.3	5.2	2.5	4.1	2.7	2.9	3.9
Male	NHW	Aggregate Asian	Asian Indian	Chinese	Filipino	Japanese	Korean	Vietnamese
Cause of Death	AR	AR	AR	AR	AR	AR	AR	AR
Diseases of heart	248.7	131.9	152.8	111.3	168.9	152.9	107.7	87.6
Malignant neoplasms	219.1	130.5	75.9	139.3	133.8	145.1	153.9	127.1
Chronic lower respiratory diseases	53.8	23.7	14.6	23.3	33.2	19.6	21.2	24.9
Accidents-Unintentional injuries	56.5	18.9	17.4	16.7	18.1	24.0	21.5	19.0
Cerebrovascular diseases	41.6	37.1	28.1	34.2	47.4	38.1	32.2	38.5
Diabetes Mellitus	24.4	18.3	22.1	13.3	24.5	21.2	18.7	13.2
Intentional self-harm (suicide)	22.9	7.7	5.7	6.5	6.0	11.5	15.9	7.5
Influenza and pneumonia	20.6	20.8	15.6	22.9	19.5	21.4	23.8	15.8
Alzheimer’s Disease	20.7	8.2	5.8	6.9	8.0	14	7.8	7.5
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis	15.6	8.9	9.8	7.6	12.9	8.6	6.2	7.4

¹Age-adjusted mortality rates standardized to 2000 US standard population