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EPIDEMIOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 100-103Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000187177.96138.c6
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Background: Mortality statistics can be compiled using underlying cause-of-death data or multiple cause-of-death data, which include other contributing causes of death. Methods: For the leading causes of death in the United States during 2000-2001, we compared underlying and multiple cause-of-death statistics. Results: For some conditions, little difference was observed between the 2 estimates. For other conditions, up to 10 times more deaths were identified from multiple-cause data than from underlying-cause data. The 10 leading causes of death differed when using the 2 types of data. Conclusions: Whenever possible, underlying and multiple cause-of-death statistics should both be presented. Analyses that use only the underlying cause of death ignore additional information that is readily available from multiple-cause data, and the more limited data may underestimate the importance of several leading causes of death.
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