Table 4.

Cause of Death

	N	% of deaths	% of CVD deaths	% of cancer deaths	% of kidney deaths
Mortality from any cause	3,980	100.0	–	–	–
CVD mortality	2,026	50.9	100.0	17.8	63.4
CHF mortality	373	9.4	18.4	1.9	19.0
CHD mortality	1,233	31.0	60.9	8.3	31.7
Cerebrovascular mortality	430	10.8	21.2	2.4	8.6
PVD mortality	161	4.1	8.0	1.1	7.7
Thromboembolic mortality	90	2.3	4.4	2.3	3.6
Cancer mortality	1,613	40.5	14.2	100.0	22.6
Kidney mortality	221	5.6	6.9	3.1	100.0
None of the above	578	14.5	0.0	0.0	0.0

Abbreviations: CVD, cardiovascular disease; CHF, congestive heart failure; CHD, coronary heart disease; PVD, peripheral vascular disease