Table 3.

Cause-specific age-risk decomposition results. US 2014–2015, men and women.

Cause of death	MEN			WOMEN
	Risk	Age	TOTAL	Risk	Age	TOTAL
Chronic and degenerative diseases
Heart diseases	−0.003	−0.014	−0.017	−0.002	−0.050	−0.052
Cancers	0.004	−0.010	−0.006	0.023	−0.018	0.005
Mental illnesses	−0.022	−0.016	−0.038	−0.030	−0.031	−0.061
Chronic lower respiratory diseases	0.001	−0.002	−0.001	0.000	0.002	0.002
Cerebrovascular diseases	0.004	0.005	0.009	0.006	−0.005	0.001
Diabetes	0.000	−0.005	−0.005	0.001	−0.012	−0.012
Diseases of the digestive system	0.000	−0.005	−0.005	0.000	−0.006	−0.006
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis	−0.001	−0.001	−0.002	0.000	−0.002	−0.002
Communicable diseases
Influenza and pneumonia	0.001	0.020	0.020	0.003	0.022	0.026
Septicemia	0.001	0.002	0.003	0.000	−0.001	−0.001
HIV/AIDS	0.002	0.002	0.004	0.002	0.001	0.002
External causes
Suicide	−0.003	−0.009	−0.012	−0.007	−0.001	−0.008
Alcoholic liver diseases and cirrhosis	−0.004	0.000	−0.004	−0.007	−0.002	−0.009
Accidental poisoning	−0.061	−0.005	−0.066	−0.018	−0.006	−0.025
Transport accident	−0.020	−0.001	−0.020	−0.007	−0.004	−0.011
Falls	0.002	0.000	0.001	0.000	0.000	0.000
Homicide	−0.031	−0.003	−0.034	−0.003	0.000	−0.003
Other causes
Infant conditions	−0.002	0.007	0.005	−0.001	0.001	0.001
Ill-defined causes	0.002	−0.017	−0.015	0.001	−0.014	−0.012
NEC - Not elsewhere classified	0.004	0.005	0.009	−0.002	−0.007	−0.009
TOTAL	−0.127	−0.048	−0.175	−0.042	−0.133	−0.174