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Table 2 Adult cause-specific mortality fractions before and after redistribution of undetermined cause category by sex, 2017-2018 (%)

From: Estimating causes of out-of-hospital deaths in China: application of SmartVA methods

Cause

Both

Male

Female

Before

After

Before

After

Before

After

Stroke

23.1

24.4

21.1

22.0

25.6

27.0

Ischemic heart disease

20.1

21.2

17.9

18.6

22.9

24.1

Chronic respiratory

9.7

10.6

10.5

11.1

8.8

9.7

Lung cancer

5.2

5.5

7.8

8.1

1.9

2.2

Other non-communicable diseases

3.1

3.8

3.7

4.2

2.3

3.2

Pneumonia

2.8

3.3

3.3

3.7

2.2

2.8

Prostate cancer

2.9

3.0

5.2

5.3

0.0

0.0

Diabetes

2.6

2.9

2.0

2.2

3.3

3.6

Leukemia/lymphomas

2.3

2.5

2.2

2.4

2.4

2.6

Other injuries

2.1

2.5

2.0

2.2

2.3

2.7

Cirrhosis

2.1

2.4

2.9

3.1

1.2

1.5

Esophageal cancer

2.0

2.1

2.3

2.5

1.6

1.7

Falls

2.0

2.1

2.0

2.1

1.9

2.1

Stomach cancer

1.3

1.5

1.3

1.4

1.4

1.6

Chronic kidney disease

1.2

1.5

1.3

1.5

1.1

1.5

Cervical cancer

1.3

1.4

0.0

0.0.

3.0

3.0

Road traffic

1.1

1.3

1.4

1.5

0.8

0.9

Poisonings

0.9

1.2

1.0

1.3

0.8

1.1

Tuberculosis

0.9

1.1

1.1

1.3

0.6

0.8

Other cancers

0.6

1.0

0.6

0.9

0.7

1.1

Diarrhea/dysentery

0.5

1.0.

0.5

0.9

0.6

1.2

Breast cancer

0.5

0.6

0.0

0.0

1.1

1.2

Suicide

0.5

0.6

0.6

0.7

0.5

0.6

Drowning

0.4

0.6

0.5

0.6

0.3

0.5

Other infectious diseases

0.3

0.5

0.2

0.4

0.4

0.7

Other cardiovascular diseases

0.0

0.4

0.0

0.3

0.0

0.5

Fires

0.2

0.3

0.2

0.3

0.2

0.3

AIDS

0.1

0.3

0.1

0.3

0.1

0.3

Homicide

0.1

0.3

0.1

0.2

0.1

0.3

Colorectal cancer

0.0

0.3

0.0

0.3

0.0

0.4

Maternal

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.1

0.1

Undetermined

9.9

0.0

8.3

0.0

11.9

0..0.