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Table 3 Causes of death among all individuals with intellectual disability and the matched control population

From: Mortality patterns and risk among older men and women with intellectual disability: a Swedish national retrospective cohort study

Causes of death

Deaths among individuals with intellectual disability (ID) (n = 4738)

Deaths among matched control population

(n = 8364)

Adjusted cause-specific mortality rate ratio (95% CI)*

Number of deaths

n (%)

Cause-Specific Mortality Rate (per 100,000 people)

Number of deaths

n (%)

Cause-Specific Mortality Rate (per 100,000 people)

Ch. I – Certain infectious and parasitic diseases, A00-B99

181 (3.8)

95

170 (2.0)

16

5.32 (4.32–6.56)

Ch. II – Neoplasms, C00-D48

710 (15.0)

372

2749 (32.9)

266

1.29 (1.19–1.40)

Ch. III – Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism, D50-D89

25 (0.5)

13

21 (0.3)

2

5.95 (3.33–10.6)

Ch. IV – Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, E00-E90

174 (3.7)

91

228 (2.7)

22

3.82 (3.13–4.65)

Ch. V – Mental and behavioural disorders, F00-F99

224 (4.7)

117

342 (4.1)

33

3.27 (2.77–3.88)

Ch. VI – Diseases of the nervous system, G00-G99

296 (6.3)

155

325 (3.9)

31

4.55 (3.89–5.33)

Ch. IX – Diseases of the circulatory system, I00-I99

1601 (33.8)

839

2959 (35.4)

287

2.71 (2.55–2.87)

Ch. X – Diseases of the respiratory system, J00-J99

807 (17.0)

423

530 (6.3)

51

7.61 (6.82–8.49)

Ch. XI – Diseases of the digestive system, K00-K93

205 (4.3)

107

318 (3.8)

31

3.22 (2.70–3.84)

Ch. XII – Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, L00-L99

5 (0.1)

3

14 (0.2)

1

1.79 (0.64–4.96)

Ch. XIII – Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue, M00-M99

30 (0.6)

16

40 (0.5)

4

3.75 (2.34–6.02)

Ch. XIV – Diseases of the genitourinary system, N00-N99

105 (2.2)

55

99 (1.2)

10

5.30 (4.03–6.98)

Ch. XVI - Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period, P00-P96

9 (0.2)

5

0 (0)

0

NA

Ch. XVII – Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities, Q00-Q99

49 (1.0)

26

5 (0.1)

0.5

49.0 (19.5–123)

Ch. XVIII – Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified, R00-R99

166 (3.5)

87

208 (2.5)

20

3.99 (3.25–4.89)

Ch. XIX – Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes, S00-T98

6 (0.1)

3

0 (0)

0

NA

Ch. XX – External causes of morbidity and mortality, V01-Y98

144 (3.0)

75

356 (4.3)

34

2.02 (1.67–2.45)

  1. The control population was matched by sex, birth year and year of first hospitalisation/access to LSS services to individuals with ID. The total follow-up period for individuals with ID was 190,788 person-years, and for the control population was 1,032,245 person-years. The adjusted mortality rate ratio was obtained using conditional fixed-effects Poisson regression