FIG. 1.

Top causes of death listed in decedents with and without SLE in the United States (presented as % of all 2014 deaths by sex and median age at death in years), 2014. CCS 104: Other and ill-defined heart disease; CCS 50: Diabetes mellitus with complications; CCS 98: Essential hypertension; CCS 67: Substance-related mental disorders; CCS 107: Cardiac arrest and ventricular fibrillation; CCS 2: Septicemia (except in labor); CCS 158: Chronic renal failure; CCS 131: Respiratory failure; CCS 108: Congestive heart failure (nonhypertensive). CCS, Clinical Classifications Software; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus.