Table 2.
Cause of death distribution by age in children at Xinhua Hospital during 2006–2015
| Infants (n/214) | Toddlers (n/180) | Older children (n/116) | p valuea | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Infectious diseases | 155 | 72.4 | 104 | 57.7 | 52 | 44.8 | <0.0001 |
| Pneumonia | 110 | 51.4 | 53 | 29.4 | 24 | 20.7 | <0.0001 |
| Sepsis | 25 | 11.7 | 29 | 16.1 | 15 | 12.9 | 0.4306 |
| CNS infection | 11 | 5.1 | 17 | 9.4 | 11 | 9.5 | 0.1939 |
| Diarrhoea | 9 | 4.2 | 5 | 2.8 | 2 | 1.7 | 0.4399 |
| Non infectious diseases | 56 | 26.2 | 73 | 40.6 | 63 | 54.3 | <0.0001 |
| Non traumatic intracranial/ gastrointestinal hemorrhage | 17 | 8.0 | 21 | 11.7 | 16 | 13.8 | 0.2165 |
| Cardiac shock | 24 | 11.2 | 14 | 7.8 | 11 | 9.5 | 0.5136 |
| Tumour | 8 | 3.7 | 24 | 13.3 | 26 | 22.4 | <0.0001 |
| Accident | 7 | 3.3 | 14 | 7.8 | 10 | 8.6 | 0.0751 |
| Other | 3 | 1.4 | 3 | 1.7 | 1 | 0.9 | 0.8438 |
aChi-squared test