Table 2.
Distribution of underlying causes of death attributed by pathologists (gold standard) and by the PCVA
| Cause Name | Autopsy | PCVA | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency | Percent | Frequency | Percent | |
| Ischemic Heart Disease | 748 | 36.3 | 546 | 26.5 |
| Other Cardiovascular Diseases | 259 | 12.6 | 245 | 11.9 |
| Other non-communicable diseases | 185 | 9.0 | 186 | 9.0 |
| Stroke | 140 | 6.8 | 319 | 15.5 |
| Other Cancers | 133 | 6.5 | 124 | 6.0 |
| Diabetes | 130 | 6.3 | 66 | 3.2 |
| Chronic Respiratory | 89 | 4.3 | 101 | 4.9 |
| Dementia | 82 | 4.0 | 57 | 2.8 |
| Cirrhosis | 42 | 2.0 | 63 | 3.1 |
| Pneumonia | 36 | 1.7 | 86 | 4.2 |
| Lung Cancer | 34 | 1.7 | 21 | 1.0 |
| Other Infectious Diseases | 33 | 1.6 | 87 | 4.2 |
| Colorectal Cancer | 32 | 1.6 | 5 | 0.2 |
| Cardiomyopathy | 23 | 1.1 | 52 | 2.5 |
| Chagas Disease | 23 | 1.1 | 36 | 1.7 |
| Tuberculosis | 22 | 1.1 | 7 | 0.3 |
| Leukemia/Lymphomas | 17 | 0.8 | 4 | 0.2 |
| Breast Cancer | 16 | 0.8 | 14 | 0.7 |
| Stomach Cancer | 16 | 0.8 | 16 | 0.8 |
| Other | 0 | 0.0 | 24 | 1.2 |
| Maternal | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 |
| Total | 2060 | 100 | 2060 | 100 |