Abstract：Objective To investigate the death causes of registered permanent elderly residents aged 65 years and above in Nantong City, and to provide a basis for the disease control and prevention of the elderly. Methods According to the death surveillance data in Nantong City from 2005 to 2014, indices like elderly proportion, crude mortality rate, standardized mortality rate and constituent ratio and rank of death causes were used to assess the death causes of the elderly aged 65 years and above. Results The average crude mortality rate and standardized mortality rate of the elderly in Nantong City during 2005-2014 were 4,513.60/100,000 and 3,653.08/100,000 respectively. The crude mortality rate was higher in males than in females (4,978.98/100,000 vs. 4,122.13/100,000, P<0.01). As time goes on, the crude mortality rate of the elderly showed an increasing tendency year by year (χ2tendency=596.798, P<0.01). The crude mortality rate of chronic non-communicable diseases was 4,089.76/100,000, accounting for 90.61% of the death causes of the whole population. The top five death causes were circulatory system diseases, tumors, respiratory diseases, injury and poisoning, endocrine diseases, with the crude mortality rates of 1,887.41/100,000, 1,101.96/100,000, 788.77/100,000, 127.98/100,000 and 92.68/100,000 respectively. Conclusions Chronic non-communicable disease is the primary death cause of the elderly. It is necessary to strengthen prevention, control and intervention of chronic diseases such as circulatory system diseases and tumors so as to improve the life quality of the elderly.
糜跃萍, 林玲, 蔡波, 韩颖颖. 南通市2005-2014年户籍老年人口死因分析[J]. 实用预防医学, 2018, 25(10): 1187-1189.
MI Yue-ping, LIN Ling, CAI Bo, HAN Ying-ying. Death causes of registered permanent elderly residents in Nantong City, 2005-2014. , 2018, 25(10): 1187-1189.
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