Table 2.

Cause-specific mortality by deprivation quintiles

Rank	Cause of death	Number of deaths	Cause-specific SMR					Ratio Q5 to Q1 (95% CI)
			Quintile 1 (least deprived)	Quintile 2	Quintile 3	Quintile 4	Quintile 5 (Most deprived)
1	Unspecified	154,685	0.71	0.93	1.07	1.06	1.12	1.59 (1.47–1.72)
2	Sepsis	28,959	1.10	0.87	0.86	0.81	0.95	0.86 (0.76–0.97)
3	Cerebrovascular diseases	17,538	1.01	0.93	0.83	0.82	1.04	1.03 (0.92–1.14)
4	Liver and bile duct cancer	16,850	0.55	0.66	0.86	1.01	1.03	1.87 (1.49–2.33)
5	Pneumonia	14,886	1.11	0.88	0.76	0.81	0.89	0.81 (0.69–0.94)
6	Traffic injury	13,772	0.50	1.03	1.07	0.99	1.05	2.08 (1.77–2.45)
7	Other external cause	13,668	0.94	0.86	0.89	0.98	1.03	1.10 (0.98–1.24)
8	Other cancers	13,166	0.93	0.88	0.95	1.02	0.96	1.03 (0.92–1.16)
9	Ischemic heart disease	13,036	1.20	0.99	0.77	0.77	0.83	0.69 (0.61–0.79)
10	Renal diseases	12,853	0.61	0.82	1.00	1.03	0.98	1.59 (1.34–1.89)
11	Lung cancer	9310	1.02	0.84	0.81	0.82	1.01	0.99 (0.85–1.14)
12	Remainder of diseases of the respiratory system	9243	0.78	0.89	1.04	1.00	0.98	1.27 (1.12–1.43)
13	Liver diseases	7824	0.75	0.82	0.96	0.93	1.10	1.46 (1.26–1.69)
14	Diabetes	6853	0.59	0.76	0.92	0.92	0.75	1.26 (0.98–1.62)
15	Remainder of diseases of the digestive system	5504	0.76	0.83	0.87	0.96	1.13	1.50 (1.30–1.73)
16	Chronic lower respiratory diseases	5410	0.80	0.88	0.73	0.77	1.02	1.29 1.06–1.56)
17	Remainder of diseases of the circulatory system	5304	0.90	0.94	0.86	0.89	1.03	1.15 (1.02–1.31)
18	Tuberculosis	4467	0.78	0.91	0.94	0.83	1.03	1.31 (1.11–1.55)
19	Drowning	3984	0.67	0.82	0.96	0.91	1.14	1.70 (1.43–2.02)
20	Remainder of diseases of the nervous system	3949	0.62	0.90	0.88	0.93	1.07	1.74 (1.45–2.09)
21	Self-harm	3761	0.46	0.80	0.78	0.96	1.12	2.44 (1.94–3.07)
22	HIV	3637	0.90	0.83	0.81	0.82	1.06	1.19 (0.99–1.42)
23	Assault	3300	0.62	0.97	0.81	0.72	0.64	1.03 (0.78–1.36)
24	Remainder of certain infectious and parasitic diseases	2667	0.80	0.90	0.88	0.93	0.92	1.16 (0.96–1.39)
25	Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period	2573	0.93	0.87	0.77	0.69	0.57	0.62 (0.48–0.79)
26	Hypertensive heart disease	2478	0.77	0.77	0.72	0.65	0.79	1.02 (0.78–1.34)
27	Colon and rectal cancer	2306	1.34	0.85	0.68	0.63	0.74	0.56 (0.45–0.69)
28	Leukemia	2024	0.95	0.91	0.91	0.84	0.90	0.94 (0.80–1.12)
29	Remainder of diseases of the genitourinary system	1851	0.94	0.78	0.89	0.80	0.90	0.96 (0.77–1.19)
30	Lip, oral cavity, and pharynx cancer	1839	1.08	0.84	0.88	0.77	0.92	0.85 (0.70–1.03)
31	Meninges, brain and other parts of central nervous system cancer	1785	0.78	0.85	0.85	1.01	0.92	1.17 (0.97–1.43)
	All causes	411,279	0.88	0.93	1.07	1.06	1.09	1.25 (1.47–1.72)