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. 2017 Nov 22;17:269. doi: 10.1186/s12877-017-0665-3

Table 6.

Hazard risk for mortality among individuals with intellectual disability; models run separately for all deaths and cause-specific deaths

All individuals with intellectual disability vs. their control population (15,289 vs. 76,445 individuals) Only individuals with Down’s syndrome vs. their control population (942 vs. 4710 individuals)
Hazard Ratio (95% CI) Hazard Ratio (95% CI)
All deaths 4.14 (3.98–4.31) 25.4 (21.3–30.4)
Circulatory diseases-related deaths 4.20 (3.92–4.50) 25.0 (17.7–35.4)
Neoplasm-related deaths 1.78 (1.63–1.94) 1.22 (0.70–2.16)
Respiratory diseases-related deaths 12.5 (10.9–14.2) 170 (84.6–345)
Nervous diseases-related deaths 6.68 (5.58–7.99) 41.2 (18.8–90.3)