Table 2.
Top 10 underlying causes of death in people with and without ID
| Underlying cause of death by ICD-10 chapter | ID ABS Convention |
ID Revised |
Comparison |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Frequency (%) | Rank | Frequency (%) | Rank | Frequency (%) | |
| All deaths | ||||||
| Circulatory system | 1 | 114 (18) | 2 | 114 (18) | 1 | 105 804 (35) |
| Neoplasms | 1 | 114 (18) | 3 | 113 (18) | 2 | 88 540 (29) |
| Nervous system and sense organ disorders | 3 | 103 (16) | 4 | 80 (13) | 6 | 11 573 (4) |
| Respiratory system | 4 | 78 (12) | 1 | 130 (20) | 3 | 26 242 (9) |
| Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities | 5 | 72 (11) | 8 | 28 (4) | ||
| Injury and poisoning (incl. external causes of morbidity and mortality) | 6 | 38 (6) | 5 | 40 (6) | 4 | 15 534 (5) |
| Digestive system | 7 | 31 (5) | 7 | 33 (5) | 7 | 10 524 (3) |
| Mental and behavioural disorders | 8 | 29 (5) | 6 | 34 (5) | 5 | 13 977 (5) |
| Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases | 9 | 16 (3) | 10 | 16 (3) | 8 | 10 535 (3) |
| Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified | 10 | 14 (2) | ||||
| Genitourinary system | 9 | 17 (3) | 9 | 7493 (2) | ||
| Certain infectious and parasitic diseases | 10 | 5235 (2) | ||||
| Total | 637 | 637 | 304 690 | |||
| Potentially avoidable deaths | 50 938 (17) | |||||
| Circulatory system | 1 | 69 (11) | 1 | 75 (12) | ||
| Infections | 2 | 32 (5) | 2 | 60 (9) | ||
| Cancer | 3 | 31 (5) | 3 | 32 (5) | ||
| Other external causes of morbidity and mortality | 4 | 28 (4) | 4 | 30 (5) | ||
| Respiratory system | 5 | 16 (3) | 5 | 16 (3) | ||
| Total | 199 (31) | 240 (38) | ||||
ID ABS, Intellectual Disability Australian Bureau of Statistics; ICD-10, International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision.