Table 2.

Based on Minnesota death records (n = 326,332) from 1990–1998. Top 25 causes of death ranked by underlying and any mention cause of death. Top 25 causes of death for only those deaths where only one cause was listed (i.e. n = 101,423 deaths).

	ranked by underlying cause	number of deaths with underlying cause	% all deaths	rankeded by any mention	number of deaths with cause mentioned	% all deaths	ranked by cause when only one cause mentioned	number of deaths with cause as only one cause	% of deaths with only one cause mentioned
1	Ischemic Heart Disease	61540	0.1886	Other diseases of the Heart	88502	0.2712	Ischemic Heart Disease	13753	0.1356
2	Cerebrovascular Disease	26413	0.0809	Ischemic Heart Disease	79833	0.2446	Other diseases of the Heart	8862	0.0874
3	Other diseases of the Heart	22566	0.0692	Cerebrovascular Disease	43885	0.1345	MN of Trachea, Bronchus & Lung	8157	0.0804
4	MN of Trachea, Bronchus & Lung	18476	0.0566	Symptoms & ill-defined conditions	42196	0.1293	Cerebrovascular Disease	7602	0.0750
5	Pneumonia – except newborn	12465	0.0382	Other mental disorders	38565	0.1182	Symptoms & ill-defined conditions	6459	0.0637
6	Other COPD	11114	0.0341	Pneumonia – except newborn	31312	0.0960	Other mental disorders	3494	0.0345
7	Other mental disorders	10120	0.0310	Diabetes mellitus	27181	0.0833	MN of Breast	3360	0.0331
8	Diabetes mellitus	7959	0.0244	Hypertension without heart disease	26036	0.0798	MN of Intestine, not rectum	3218	0.0317
9	MN of Intestine, not rectum	7388	0.0226	Other COPD	25872	0.0793	Pneumonia – except newborn	3131	0.0309
10	Diseases of the arteries, veins & pulmonary circulation	7181	0.0220	MN of Trachea, Bronchus & Lung	19896	0.0610	MN of Other & unspecified sites	3042	0.0300
11	MN of Breast	6646	0.0204	MN of Other & unspecified sites	19386	0.0594	MN of Prostate	2380	0.0235
12	Symptoms & ill-defined conditions	6488	0.0199	Diseases of the arteries, veins & pulmonary circulation	19180	0.0588	Other COPD	2332	0.0230
13	Transportation accidents – Motor Vehicle	5809	0.0178	Other diseases of the digestive system	17943	0.0550	MN of Pancreas	2313	0.0228
14	Other diseases of the digestive system	5777	0.0177	Pneumoconiosis & other resp. Diseases	17728	0.0543	Diseases of arteries, veins & pulmonary circulation	1758	0.0173
15	Other disease of the Nervous System and Sense Organs	5714	0.0175	Other disease of the Nervous System & Sense Organs	16799	0.0515	Other Neoplasms of lymphatic & Hematopoietic tissue	1701	0.0168
16	MN of Prostate	5669	0.0174	Chronic and Unspec. Nephritis & renal failure & renal sclerosis	16065	0.0492	Alzeimer Disease	1536	0.0151
17	MN of Other & unspecified sites	5504	0.0169	Arteriosclerosis	13879	0.0425	Other disease of the Nervous System & Sense Organs	1477	0.0146
18	Suicide	4435	0.0136	Transportation accidents – Motor Vehicle	10367	0.0318	Residual, Undefined	1300	0.0128
19	MN of Pancreas	4136	0.0127	Medical complications & misadventures	10299	0.0316	MN of Brain, other nervous	1292	0.0127
20	Residual, Undefined	4135	0.0127	MN of Intestine, not rectum	9116	0.0279	Leukemia, & Aleukemia	1271	0.0125
21	Pneumoconiosis & other resp. Diseases	4028	0.0123	Septicemia	8790	0.0269	Perinatal conditions	1206	0.0119
22	Accidental falls	4010	0.0123	Suicide	8740	0.0268	MN of Ovary, Fallopian tube, Broad ligament	1124	0.0111
23	Alzeimer Disease	3757	0.0115	MN of Breast	8704	0.0267	Other diseases of the digestive system	1079	0.0106
24	Other Neoplasms of lymphatic & Hematopoietic tissue	3584	0.0110	Other genito-urinary disease	8382	0.0257	Suicide	990	0.0098
25	Leukemia, & Aleukemia	3440	0.0105	MN of Prostate	8369	0.0256	MN of Kidney	955	0.0094