Table 6.
Causes of death and number of cases (based on ICD-10) contributing to the mortality in The Malaysian Cohort from commencement of recruitment until June 2013
| Main cause of death | Number of cases (%) |
|---|---|
| Diseases of the circulatory system | 440 (32.2) |
| Neoplasms | |
| Lung (49 cases) | |
| Liver (35 cases) | |
| Breast (35 cases) | |
| Colorectal (16 cases) | |
| Stomach (14 cases) | |
| Nasopharyngeal (13 cases) | |
| Lymphoma (13 cases) | |
| Brain (13 cases) | |
| Ovarian (11 cases) | |
| Pancreatic (11) | |
| Unknown (11) | |
| Other (45) | 266 (19.4) |
| Certain infectious and parasitic diseases | 189 (13.8) |
| Ageing | 128 (9.3) |
| Diseases of the respiratory system | 116 (8.5) |
| Injury, poisoning and similar | 55 (4.0) |
| Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases | 48 (3.5) |
| Unknown/other | 31 (2.3) |
| Diseases of digestive system | 29 (2.1) |
| External causes of morbidity and mortality | 24 (1.8) |
| Diseases of the genitourinary system | 20 (1.5) |
| Symptoms, signs & abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified | 16 (1.2) |
| Diseases of the nervous system | 4 (0.3) |
| Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue | 2 (0.1) |
| Total | 1368 (100) |