Table 3

Causes of death through 2004: SMRs and CIs based on US white male rates

				95% Confidence limits
Cause of death (ICD-9 codes)	Observed	Expected	SMR	Lower	Upper
Tuberculosis	147	6.8	21.75^†	18.37	25.56
All malignant neoplasms	896	795.4	1.13^†	1.05	1.20
Buccal cavity and pharynx	20	19.9	1.01	0.62	1.55
Digestive organs and peritoneum	218	209.9	1.04	0.91	1.19
Larynx	10	10.1	0.99	0.48	1.82
Bronchus, trachea, lung	359	261.5	1.37^†	1.23	1.52
Cancer of prostate	61	68.5	0.89	0.68	1.14
Kidney	28	19.8	1.41	0.94	2.04
Bladder and other urinary organs	34	23.8	1.43	0.99	2.00
All lymphatic, haematopoietic tissue	73	78.8	0.93	0.73	1.16
All other malignant neoplasms	93	105.1	0.88	0.71	1.08
Cerebrovascular disease	217	213.0	1.02	0.89	1.16
All heart disease	1219	1372.4	0.89^†	0.84	0.94
Non-malignant respiratory disease	377	272.5	1.38^†	1.25	1.53
Influenza and pneumonia	71	88.1	0.81	0.63	1.02
Bronchitis, emphysema, asthma	77	81.6	0.94	0.75	1.18
Silicosis	55	0.9	59.13^†	44.55	76.97
Other non-malignant respiratory disease	174	100.0	1.74^†	1.50	2.02
Diabetes mellitus	67	61.2	1.09	0.85	1.39
Cirrhosis of liver	63	77.3	0.82	0.63	1.04
Nephritis and nephrosis	34	34.4	0.99	0.68	1.38
All external causes of death	264	304.7	0.87^*	0.77	0.98
All other causes of death	326	410.7	0.79^†	0.71	0.89

ICD-9, 9th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases; SMR, standardised mortality ratio.
↵* Significant at the 5% level.
↵† Significant at the 1% level.