Table 3.

Autopsy findings including cause of death

	1999–2000		2009–2010			Total
	Number	% of n = 1357b	Number	% of n = 1053b	p value	Number	% of n = 2410b
Autopsy findinga
Myocardial infarction	476	35.1%	465	44.2%	0.062	941	39.0%
Cardiopulmonary failure	446	32.9%	470	44.6%	0.0018	916	38.0%
Neoplasm	401	29.6%	248	23.6%	< 0.0001	649	26.9%
Pneumonia	294	21.7%	264	25.1%	0.76	558	23.2%
Cerebrovascular lesion	242	17.8%	189	17.9%	0.21	431	17.9%
Pulmonary embolism	160	11.8%	80	7.6%	< 0.0001	240	10.0%
Aortic rupture/cardiac tamponade	138	10.2%	101	9.6%	0.16	239	9.9%
Sepsis/peritonitis	82	6.0%	105	10.0%	0.0083	187	7.8%
Brain disease with dementia	38	2.8%	74	7.0%	< 0.0001	112	4.6%
Gastrointestinal hemorrhage	47	3.5%	45	4.3%	0.67	92	3.8%
Intestinal ischemia	42	3.1%	38	3.6%	0.89	80	3.3%
No result	11	0.8%	5	0.5%	0.21	16	0.7%
Total	2377		2084			4461
Autopsy findingsc known before death
Yes	279	21%	255	24%	0.032	534	22%
No	428	32%	337	32%	0.81	765	32%
Partially	350	26%	319	30%	0.014	669	28%
No major findings	300	22%	142	13%	< 0.0001	442	18%
Total	1357	100%	1053	100%		2410	100%

^aEach autopsy often yielded more than one finding

^bCalculated by the number of autopsy cases, i.e., the prevalence of the illness in this study cohort

^cAll autopsy findings excluding the cause of death