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Table 6 Numbers of VAs collected by cause of death and gold standard level for adult causes

From: Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets

Adult causes

Level 1

Level 2A

Level 2B

AIDS

345

0

8

AIDS with TB

148

0

0

Acute myocardial infarction

376

24

0

Anemia

68

0

0

Asthma

13

34

0

Bite of venomous animal

66

0

0

Breast cancer

179

3

12

COPD

170

1

0

Cervical cancer

127

23

5

Cirrhosis

82

231

0

Colorectal cancer

85

6

8

Dementia

1

0

0

Diabetes with coma

144

0

0

Diabetes with renal failure

156

0

0

Diabetes with skin infection/sepsis

114

0

0

Diarrhea/dysentery

221

7

0

Drowning

106

0

0

Epilepsy

47

1

0

Esophageal cancer

26

13

1

Falls

173

0

0

Fires

122

0

0

Hemorrhage

111

3

0

Homicide

167

0

0

Hypertensive disorder

107

6

0

Congestive heart failure

221

0

0

Inflammatory heart disease

42

0

0

Leukemia

71

2

5

Liver cancer

29

0

2

Lung cancer

66

36

4

Lymphomas

74

0

3

Malaria

89

11

0

Mouth/oropharynx cancer

22

0

0

Obstructed labor

17

1

0

Other cancers

142

0

0

Other cardiovascular diseases

153

0

0

Other digestive diseases

166

0

0

Other infectious diseases

258

0

0

Other injuries

103

0

0

Other noncommunicable diseases

200

0

0

Other pregnancy-related deaths

89

0

0

Ovarian cancer

32

1

0

Pelvic inflammatory disease

5

0

0

Pneumonia

310

229

0

Poisonings

86

0

0

Prostate cancer

40

8

0

Renal failure

411

2

0

Road traffic

202

0

0

Sepsis

24

46

0

Stomach cancer

50

10

2

Stroke

378

252

0

Suicide

124

0

0

TB

196

79

0

Uterine cancer

1

1

1