Table 5.

Underlying Cause of Death Distribution, Rankings, and Age at Death for Individuals With Chronic Hepatitis B or C Reported to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene During 2001–2012

	Hepatitis B (n = 3897)				Hepatitis C (n = 15 541)
Rank	Cause of Death Category	No.	%	Median Age at Death (IQR), y	Cause of Death Category	No.	%	Median Age at Death (IQR), y
1	Nonliver cancers	833	21.4	59.0 (48.7–69.2)	Cardiovascular disease	3458	22.2	60.0 (52.5–72.6)
2	Cardiovascular disease	803	20.6	65.6 (53.7–77.4)	Nonliver cancers	2312	14.9	57.8 (51.9–66.4)
3	HIV/AIDS-associated	594	15.2	42.8 (37.7–49.6)	HIV/AIDS-associated	1939	12.5	48.8 (43.6–53.7)
4	Hepatocellular carcinoma	493	12.7	52.7 (45.3–61.5)	Other causes	1723	11.1	54.3 (47.1–64.6)
5	Other causes	421	10.8	54.1 (42.6–71.4)	Hepatitis C-associated	1536	9.9	54.7 (49.5–61.4)
6	Hepatitis B-associated	184	4.7	53.9 (46.2–64.8)	Drug/alcohol-associated	1357	8.7	47.2 (40.9–52.4)
7	Respiratory disease	188	4.8	68.4 (55.6–77.9)	Hepatocellular carcinoma	1152	7.4	59.2 (53.1–67.6)
8	Liver disease (noncancer)	133	3.4	53.8 (47.3–63.7)	Respiratory disease	804	5.2	58.6 (51.5–70.0)
9	Diabetes-associated	115	3.0	62.8 (54.6–71.1)	Liver disease (noncancer)	746	4.8	54.6 (48.9–61.4)
10	Drug/alcohol-associated	95	2.4	41.2 (35.9–48.7)	Diabetes-associated	450	2.9	58.0 (51.6–68.3)

For International Classification of Disease, 10th Revision, codes used for each underlying cause of death category, see Supplementary Table 1.

Abbreviation: IQR, interquartile range.