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. 2015 Oct 13;44(6):1917–1926. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyv197

Table 1.

Distribution of age-sex standardized cause-specific mortality rates (per 100 000 adult population per year) across socioeconomic quintiles, Matlab, 1982

Diseases
Chronic disease share (%)
Chronic diseases
Other diseases
All
Asset quintile Cancer Diabetes COPD Stroke Heart Hypertension Other chronic Total Communicable Injury Unknown/unclassifieda Total
Poorest 4.4 6.8 232.6 - 12.9 - 289.3 546.0 261.0 15.4 710.1 986.4 1532.4 35.6%
2nd 12.5 0 249.7 - 19.3 - 354.9 636.3 167.8 30.3 822.8 1020.9 1657.2 38.4%
3rd 26.4 0 216.0 - 17.6 - 390.2 650.3 126.6 34.2 828.1 988.9 1639.3 39.7%
4th 0 0 159.4 - 73.0 - 400.4 632.9 102.7 33.0 658.7 794.5 1427.4 44.3%
Richest 30.9 5.6 269.0 - 56.1 - 335.6 697.3 116.2 26.3 728.0 870.4 1567.6 44.5%
All 16.0 2.5 229.2 - 38.6 - 359.9 646.3 148.7 28.1 754.1 930.9 1577.2 41.0%
Concentration Index (95% CI) 0.221 −0.003 0.009 0.299 0.025 0.037 −0.176 0.056 −0.016 −0.04 0.008
(−0.077–0.519) (−0.824–0.818) (−0.081–0.099) (0.142–0.456) (−0.044–0.094) (0.002–0.072) (−0.278–(−0.074)) (−0.099–0.211) (−0.053–0.021) (−0.056–0.024) (−0.014–0.03)

aUnknown and unclassified causes considering the categorization of diseases.