Table 1: Number and prevalence for the different causes of death in the elderly Cypriot population during the study period.
Cause of death | Deaths (n) | Prevalence (%) |
Diseases of the circulatory system | 17,899 | 41.52 |
Neoplasms | 7,521 | 17.45† |
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases | 3,753 | 8.71† |
Diseases of the respiratory system | 3,708 | 8.60 |
Symptoms, signs, abnormal findings, ill-defined causes | 2,532 | 5.87† |
Diseases of the genitourinary system | 1,586 | 3.68† |
Diseases of the digestive system | 1,475 | 3.42 |
External causes of morbidity and mortality | 1,347 | 3.12* |
Diseases of the nervous system and the sense organs | 1,203 | 2.79* |
Mental and behavioural disorders | 676 | 1.57† |
Infectious and parasitic diseases | 577 | 1.34* |
Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism | 291 | 0.68† |
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue | 278 | 0.64 |
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system/connective tissue | 237 | 0.55 |
Congenital malformations and chromosomal abnormalities | 24 | 0.06† |
Total | 43,107 |
Note: *Indicates statistically significant difference from the above death cause at p ≤ 0.05; †Indicates statistically significant difference from the above death cause at p ≤ 0.001.