TABLE III.

Underlying Cause of Natural Deaths among Recently Separated Male U.S. Army Soldiers^a, 1999-2011

Disease	n (%)
All	1,445 (100)
Malignant neoplasmb	640 (44)
Other malignant neoplasmsc	261
Trachea, bronchus and lung	126
Colon, rectum, anus	96
Leukemia	58
Breast	0
Pancreas	36
Urinary tract	28
Stomach	23
Prostate	12
Major cardiovascular diseased	401 (28)
Ischemic heart disease	194
Other diseases of the hearte	115
Cerebrovascular diseases	42
Hypertensive heart disease with or without renal disease	33
Other diseases of the circulatory system f	11
Hypertension and hypertensive renal disease	6
Atherosclerosis	0
All other diseases	221 (15)
Symptoms, signs, and lab findings	73 (5)
Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis	39 (3)
Diabetes mellitus	21 (1)
Influenza and pneumonia	14 (1)
Chronic lower respiratory diseases	10 (1)
Human immunodeficiency virus	12 (1)
Congenital and chromosomal abnormalities	9 (1)
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis	5 (<1)
Pregnancy, childbirth, and puerperium	0 (0)

Sources: U.S. Army separated soldier deaths are from the National Death Index and Defense Casualty Analysis System.

^a Deceased soldiers represent those who died within 18 months of separating from service.

^b Malignant neoplasm deaths are identified with the ICD-10 underlying causes of death codes C00-C97 and exclude underlying death codes D00-D48.

^c Other malignant neoplasms are identified with ICD-10 underlying cause of death codes C02-C15, C17, C22, C31-C32, C37, C41, C43-C45, C47, C49, C53-C56, C62, C71-C74, C78-C79, C80-C81, C82-C85, C90, and C97.

^d Major cardiovascular disease deaths are identified with the ICD-10 underlying causes of death codes I00-I78.

^e Other diseases of the heart deaths are identified with ICD-10 codes I00-I09 and I26-I51.

^f Other diseases of the circulatory system deaths are identified with ICD-10 underlying causes of diseases codes I71-I78 and exclude codes I80-I81 and I83-I99.