Table 2.

Causes of death at autopsy

	1999–2000		2009–2010			Total
Cause of death	Number	%	Number	%	p value	Number	%
Cardiopulmonary failure	320	23.6%	246	23.4%	0.90	566	23.5%
Myocardial infarct	220	16.2%	293	27.8%	< 0.0001	513	21.3%
Pneumonia	163	12.0%	112	10.6%	0.29	275	11.4%
Neoplasm	140	10.3%	41	3.9%	< 0.0001	181	7.5%
Pulmonary embolism	108	8.0%	56	5.3%	0.011	164	6.8%
Aortic rupture/cardiac tamponade	91	6.7%	63	6.0%	0.47	154	6.4%
Cerebrovascular lesion	82	6.0%	39	3.7%	0.0091	121	5.0%
Sepsis/peritonitis	54	4.0%	51	4.8%	0.30	105	4.4%
Gastrointestinal hemorrhage	26	1.9%	24	2.3%	0.53	50	2.1%
Intestinal ischemia	14	1.0%	19	1.8%	0.11	33	1.4%
Other	77	5.7%	61	5.8%	0.90	138	5.7%
Not identified	62	4.6%	48	4.6%	0.99	110	4.6%
Total	1357	100%	1053	100%		2410	100%