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Table 2 Standardised mortality ratios, % (95% confidence interval), of all-cause and cause-specific Indigenous mortality.

From: Recent patterns in chronic disease mortality in remote living Indigenous Australians

 

Outer Regional

Remote

Very Remote

Cause of death

1998-2001

2002-2005

1998-2001

2002-2005

1998-2001

2002-2005

All cause

241 (230 - 252)

202 (191 - 213)

421 (399 - 443)

331 (313 - 349)

220 (209 - 231)

176 (167 - 185)

Cardiovascular

269 (252 - 286)

221 (206 - 236)

427 (396 - 458)

328 (302 - 354)

204 (190 - 218)

170 (157 - 183)

Diabetes

636 (573 - 699)

554 (497 - 611)

826 (721 - 931)

727 (633 - 821)

513 (458 - 568)

416 (369 - 463)

Renal

401 (356 - 446)

351 (310 - 392)

742 (652 - 832)

631 (551 - 711)

428 (382 - 474)

363 (323 - 403)

  1. See Methods for definitions of causes of deaths and remoteness categories
  2. Reference population for calculating standardised mortality ratios: 2001 total Australian population
  3. Standardised mortality ratio: number of observed deaths/number of expected deaths. Expected deaths calculated by applying age-, sex-, period- and region-specific Indigenous death rates to the reference population. A ratio equal to 100% means that, compared to the total population, there are no more Indigenous deaths than expected.