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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 28.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroepidemiology. 2015 Oct 28;45(3):152–160. doi: 10.1159/000441084

Table 2.

Fraction of death that have been added to each type of stroke after redistribution of “garbage codes”, men and women combined, all ages, year 2008, ICD 10 vital registration

different group of garbage codes Intracranial hemorrhagic stroke Ischemic stroke Subarachnoid hemorrhagic stroke
Stroke unspecified 88.6% 162.8% 46.1%
primary and secondary hypertension 4.7% 17.7% 0.0%
Atherosclerosis 0.0% 21.6% 0.0%
Non traumatic extradural hemorrhage 6.0% 0.0% 7.4%
Age-related physical debility(senility) 4.9% 6.3% 2.0%
Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids 7.1% 3.8% 0.0%
all ill-defined code 2.7% 1.8% 2.7%
Cardiac arrest, Hypotension, Syncope and collapse 2.8% 2.5% 1.0%
Asphyxia and hypoxemia, Respiratory arrest 0.5% 0.5% 0.5%
residual 0.5% 0.4% 0.4%
Somnolence, stupor and coma 0.5% 0.4% 0.3%
Hypertensive encephalopathy 0.2% 0.3% 0.6%
Hemiplegia 0.3% 0.4% 0.3%
Cerebral edema 0.0% 0.5% 0.0%
Dehydration and Volume depletion 0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
Unspecified disorder of circulatory system 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%