Table II.
Overall mortality risk and the most common underlying causes of death with respective hazard ratios (HR) and subdistribution hazard ratios (SHR) among patients with chronic ulcers compared with the reference group
| Number of deaths |
HR | 95% CI | SHR | 95% CI | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patients n | References n | |||||
| Overall | 2,801 | 6,615 | 1.74 | 1.66–1.82 | – | – |
| Diabetesa | 116 | 50 | 8.98 | 6.44–12.52 | 7.01 | 5.03–9.76 |
| Digestive diseasesb | 110 | 180 | 2.50 | 1.97–3.17 | 1.82 | 1.44–2.31 |
| Pneumonia | 95 | 190 | 2.01 | 1.57–2.58 | 1.49 | 1.16–1.90 |
| Ischaemic heart diseases | 772 | 1,727 | 1.80 | 1.66–1.97 | 1.40 | 1.28–1.52 |
| Cerebrovascular diseases | 282 | 739 | 1.55 | 1.36–1.78 | 1.14 | 0.99–1.31 |
| Malignancies | 345 | 1,139 | 1.23 | 1.09–1.39 | 0.90 | 0.80–1.01 |
| Dementia | 214 | 940 | 0.99 | 0.85–1.15 | 0.66 | 0.57–0.77 |
a
Including all types of diabetes.
b
Excluding alcohol-related diseases.
95% CI: 95% confidence interval.