Pathologically defined disease as cause of death | Persons n (%) |
Lung cancer | 86 (48.6) |
Other neoplasms located in respiratory organs¶ | 7 (4.0) |
Acute pneumonia | 21 (11.9) |
Emphysema | 35 (20.0) |
Chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis | 17 (9.6) |
Bronchial asthma | 1 (0.6) |
Diffuse lung parenchymal diseases | 6 (3.3) |
Pleural empyema | 1 (0.6) |
Tuberculosis of the lung | 3 (1.7) |
All respiratory diseases | 177 (100) |
SNOMED: Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine. #: there were in addition 13 cases with fatal embolism of the lung; ¶: including larynx cancer 3, malignant mesothelioma 2, sarcoma 1 and unspecified 1.