Fig. 1

Age- and sex adjusted cause-specific mortality (%) by time after hip fracture. Norwegians 50 years and older, men and women combined (n = 146,132). Predicted at mean values of age at first hip fracture (80.7 years) and sex (30.3% men) from a logistic model (general linear model with ‘family = binomial’ and ‘link = logit’) regressing cause-specific death on age and sex. External: External causes of morbidity and mortality (ICD-10: V01-Y89); Circulatory: Diseases of the circulatory system (ICD-10: I00-I99); Neoplasms: Neoplasms (ICD-10: C00-D48); Respiratory: Diseases of the respiratory system (ICD-10: J00-J99); Mental/behavioral: Mental and behavioural disorders (ICD-10: F01-F99); Nervous system: Diseases of the nervous system and the sense organs (ICD-10: G00-H95); Other: Deaths caused by digestive diseases, endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, genitourinary diseases, infectious and parasitic diseases, musculoskeletal diseases, immunologic disorders, diseases of the skin or subcutaneous tissue, congenital malformations, and ill-defined/unspecified causes