Performance of InterVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Table 1 Number of deaths for adults, children, and neonates by cause

Adult causes	Deaths	Child causes	Deaths
Acute cardiac death	400	Chronic cardiac death	76
Chronic cardiac death	416	Chronic respiratory disease	12
Chronic respiratory disease	218	Diarrhea	256
Diabetes	414	Drowning	83
Diarrhea	228	HIV/AIDS	20
Disease of nervous system	49	Homicide	52
Drowning	106	Malaria	117
HIV/AIDS	501	Malignancy	28
Homicide	167	Measles	23
Kidney or urinary disease	413	Meningitis	99
Liver disease	313	Other acute infection	111
Malaria	100	Other digestive disease	48
Malignancy	1,090	Other injuries	171
Maternal Death	402	Other noncommunicable diseases	182
Other acute infection	263	Pneumonia/sepsis	678
Other digestive disease	166	Poisoning	18
Other injuries	464	Transport-related accident	92
Other noncommunicable diseases	200	Tuberculosis (pulmonary)	9
Pneumonia/sepsis	609	Total	2075
Poisoning	86
Stroke	630	Neonate causes	Deaths
Suicide	124	Congenital malformation	250
Transport-related accident	202	Meningitis	6
Tuberculosis (pulmonary)	275	Perinatal asphyxia	461
Total	7836	Pneumonia/sepsis	250
		Preterm/small baby	662
		Total	1629

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