The burden of disease and injury in Iran 2003

Table 5 Top 11 disease groups with the highest burden (DALY rates/100,000) in six provinces, all ages and both sexes, Iran 2003

	Provinces and disease groups
Rank	National level	East Azerbaijan	Bushehr	Charmahal Bakhtiary	Hormozgan	Khorasan	Yazd
1	Injuries	Injuries	Injuries	Injuries	Injuries	Injuries	Injuries
2	Mental ⁽¹⁾	Mental ⁽¹⁾	Mental ⁽¹⁾	Mental ⁽¹⁾	Mental ⁽¹⁾	Mental ⁽¹⁾	Mental ⁽¹⁾
3	Circulatory	Circulatory	Circulatory	Circulatory	Infectious	Circulatory	Circulatory
4	Perinatal	Musc.-skel. ⁽²⁾	Congenital ⁽³⁾	Musc.-skel. ⁽²⁾	Circulatory	Musc.-skel. ⁽²⁾	Musc.-skel. ⁽²⁾
5	Musc.-skel. ⁽²⁾	Respiratory	Perinatal	Perinatal	Perinatal	Perinatal	Respiratory
6	Genitourin. ⁽⁴⁾	Genitourin. ⁽⁴⁾	Musc.-skel. ⁽²⁾	Genitourin. ⁽⁴⁾	Blood system⁽⁵⁾	Genitourin. ⁽⁴⁾	Endocrine ⁽⁶⁾
7	Digestive	Neoplasms	Genitourin. ⁽⁴⁾	Digestive	Respiratory	Digestive	Genitourin. ⁽⁴⁾
8	Respiratory	Digestive	Digestive	Respiratory	Musc.-skel. ⁽²⁾	Respiratory	Perinatal
9	Endocrine ⁽⁶⁾	Perinatal	Endocrine ⁽⁶⁾	Skin ⁽⁷⁾	Digestive	Infectious	Neoplasms
10	Neoplasms	Endocrine ⁽⁶⁾	Neoplasms	Neoplasms	Congenital ⁽³⁾	Neoplasms	Digestive
11	Nervous ⁽⁸⁾	Infectious	Nervous ⁽⁸⁾	Endocrine ⁽⁶⁾	Genitourin. ⁽⁴⁾	Endocrine ⁽⁶⁾	Nervous ⁽⁸⁾

(1) Mental and behavioral disorders; (2) Musculoskeletal diseases; (3) Congenital malformations and chromosomal abnormalities; (4) Genitourinary diseases; (5) Blood and blood forming organs diseases; (6) Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases; (7) Skin and subcutaneous tissues diseases; (8) Nervous system diseases

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