Table 1.
Proportions of deaths as assigned to VACoD, for 6,721 deaths in the Agincourt HDSS, South Africa, with RRCoD and 4,507 without RRCoD
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| Cause of death category | n | % | n | % |
| Accidental causes | 394 | 5.9 | 48 | 1.1 |
| Homicide or suicide | 356 | 5.3 | 102 | 2.3 |
| Nervous system disease | 30 | 0.4 | 6 | 0.1 |
| Diarrhoeal disease | 175 | 2.6 | 69 | 1.5 |
| Maternal causes | 23 | 0.3 | 15 | 0.3 |
| Indeterminate | 368 | 5.5 | 282 | 6.3 |
| HIV/TB | 2,579 | 38.4 | 2,078 | 46.1 |
| Stroke | 224 | 3.3 | 63 | 1.4 |
| Cardiovascular disease | 256 | 3.8 | 156 | 3.5 |
| Neoplasm | 416 | 6.2 | 457 | 10.1 |
| Endocrine or malnutrition | 186 | 2.8 | 133 | 3.0 |
| Neonatal or congenital | 166 | 2.5 | 124 | 2.8 |
| Chronic liver disease | 29 | 0.4 | 36 | 0.8 |
| Chronic respiratory disease | 273 | 4.1 | 182 | 4.0 |
| Acute infectious disease | 221 | 3.3 | 124 | 2.8 |
| Acute respiratory disease | 870 | 12.9 | 521 | 11.6 |
| Other | 159 | 2.4 | 111 | 2.5 |
VACoD=verbal autopsy causes of death; RRCoD=respondent-reported cause of death.