Table 5.
Association of disability with mortality by group of causes
| Group of causes | SRD (95% CI)* | SRR (95% CI) |
| Certain infectious and parasitic diseases | 0.28 (0.14 to 0.42) | 3.38 (2.27 to 5.01) |
| Neoplasms | 2.13 (1.65 to 2.61) | 1.74 (1.57 to 1.92) |
| Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism | 0.02 (−0.00 to 0.05) | 1.75 (0.94 to 3.26) |
| Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases | 0.45 (0.33 to 0.57) | 3.08 (2.43 to 3.90) |
| Mental and behavioural disorders | 0.40 (0.28 to 0.53) | 2.43 (1.91 to 3.07) |
| Diseases of the nervous system | 1.46 (1.13 to 1.79) | 4.86 (3.93 to 6.01) |
| Diseases of the circulatory system | 3.24 (2.78 to 3.71) | 2.32 (2.12 to 2.55) |
| Diseases of the respiratory system | 1.42 (1.17 to 1.66) | 2.69 (2.35 to 3.07) |
| Diseases of the digestive system | 0.56 (0.38 to 0.73) | 2.25 (1.84 to 2.75) |
| Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue | 0.03 (0.00 to 0.05) | 2.38 (1.22 to 4.64) |
| Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue | 0.20 (0.09 to 0.31) | 3.45 (2.18 to 5.47) |
| Diseases of the genitourinary system | 0.51 (0.37 to 0.65) | 3.10 (2.44 to 3.94) |
| Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities | 0.05 (0.01 to 0.10) | 28.23 (5.86 to 135.96) |
| Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified | 0.32 (0.19 to 0.46) | 2.73 (2.01 to 3.71) |
| External causes | 0.47 (0.26 to 0.69) | 2.68 (1.98 to 3.65) |
*SRD, per 1000 person-years, with the baseline total population distribution of age, sex, living with a partner and education as the standard.
SRD, standardised rate difference; SRR, standardised rate ratio.