Seasonal variations of all-cause and cause-specific mortality by age, gender, and socioeconomic condition in urban and rural areas of Bangladesh

Table 1 Percentage of deaths attributed to selected diseases by location, gender and socioeconomic status (SES) (2003-2007)

Cause of death	Rural	Urban	p-value*	Male	Female	p-value*	Low SES	High SES	p-value*
Respiratory disease	19.4	16.1	<0.001	19.4	17.0	<0.001	14.1	14.2	0.95
Cardiovascular disease	11.5	20.8	<0.001	16.7	11.0	<0.001	14.7	17.6	<0.001
Diarrhoeal Disease	3.9	2.7	<0.001	3.2	4.1	<0.001	3.5	2.9	0.02
Infectious disease	13.9	9.4	<0.001	12.2	13.7	<0.001	10.1	10.5	0.36
Cancer	6.2	7.5	<0.001	6.7	6.3	0.16	7.1	7.7	0.13
Malnutrition	2.0	1.8	0.24	1.7	2.4	<0.001	1.1	0.7	0.10
Vector-borne disease	1.5	0.7	<0.001	1.4	1.3	0.39	1.3	1.4	0.05
Other diseases	41.6	41.0	0.01	38.7	44.2	<0.001	48.1	45.0	<0.001
Total	100	100		100	100		100	100

*: p-values were determined by Chi-square tests with a significance level of 0.05.

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