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. 2022 Jun 2;9:899544. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.899544

Table 3.

Causes of death according to the time of death after initial BM diagnosis.

Cause of death Total death Death by time after BM diagnosis
1–5 months 6–11 months 12–35 months 36+ months
All death 97,997 50,257 (51.3%) 19,900 (20.3%) 21,955 (22.4%) 5,885 (6.0%)
Cancer causes 91,215 47,003 (51.5%) 18,727 (20.5%) 20,321 (22.3%) 5,164 (5.7%)
Non-cancer causes 6,782 3,254 (48.0%) 1,173 (17.3%) 1,634 (24.1%) 721 (10.6%)
Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease 2,618 1,197 (45.7%) 437 (16.7%) 675 (25.8%) 309 (11.8%)
Other causes 1,871 943 (50.4%) 318 (17.0%) 418 (22.3%) 192 (10.3%)
COPD and associated conditions 553 302 (54.6%) 98 (17.7%) 111 (20.1%) 42 (7.6%)
Septicemia, infectious and parasitic diseases 544 277 (50.9%) 104 (19.1%) 119 (21.9%) 44 (8.1%)
Pneumonia and influenza 284 140 (49.3%) 53 (18.7%) 63 (22.2%) 28 (9.9%)
Accidents and adverse effects 264 103 (39%) 48 (18.2%) 77 (29.2%) 36 (13.6%)
Diabetes 170 69 (40.6%) 35 (20.6%) 45 (26.5%) 21 (12.4%)
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis 134 64 (47.8%) 26 (19.4%) 31 (23.1%) 13 (9.7%)
Suicide and self-inflicted injury 114 59 (51.8%) 17 (14.9%) 30 (26.3%) 8 (7.0%)
Alzheimers 99 32 (32.3%) 16 (16.2%) 33 (33.3%) 18 (18.2%)
Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis 93 50 (53.8%) 15 (16.1%) 23 (24.7%) 5 (5.4%)
Stomach and duodenal ulcers 33 16 (48.5%) 5 (15.2%) 8 (24.2%) 4 (12.1%)
Homicide and legal intervention 5 2 (40.0%) 1 (20.0%) 1 (20.0%) 1 (20.0%)