Health Outcome HO.6 Leading causes of death by age-adjusted death rates per 100,000
| Leading causes of death by age-adjusted death rate (per 100,000), San Francisco, 2004 and 2000 | |||||||||
| 2004 | 2000 | ||||||||
| Rank | Cause | Deaths | Age-adjusted rate per 100,000 | LCI | UCI | Deaths | Age-adjusted rate per 100,000 | LCI | UCI |
| 1 | Ischemic heart disease | 1,056 | 112 | 92.3 | 134.7 | 1,293 | 150.7 | 126.4 | 178.3 |
| 2 | Cerebrovascular disease | 504 | 53.1 | 39.8 | 69.3 | 588 | 68.1 | 52 | 87.6 |
| 3 | Trach/bronch/lung cancer | 361 | 40.9 | 29.3 | 55.4 | 352 | 42 | 29.9 | 57.3 |
| 4 | Hypertensive heart disease | 233 | 25.7 | 16.8 | 37.7 | 256 | 30.1 | 19.8 | 43.7 |
| 5 | Lower respiratory infection | 248 | 25.5 | 16.6 | 37.4 | 300 | 34.5 | 23.3 | 49.1 |
| 6 | COPD | 226 | 24.4 | 15.7 | 36.3 | 281 | 32.9 | 22.2 | 46.9 |
| 7 | Alzheimer/other dementia disease | 234 | 23 | 14.6 | 34.5 | 198 | 22.5 | 13.6 | 35 |
| 8 | HIV/AIDS | 178 | 19.6 | 12.2 | 29.8 | 199 | 23.4 | 15.1 | 34.8 |
| 9 | Diabetes | 143 | 15.7 | 8.9 | 25.5 | 114 | 13.5 | 7.1 | 23.3 |
| 10 | Colon/rectal cancer | 136 | 15.1 | 8.5 | 24.9 | 152 | 18 | 10.4 | 28.9 |
| 11 | Breast cancer | 110 | 12.4 | 6.6 | 21.4 | 96 | 11.5 | 5.7 | 20.6 |
| 12 | Self-inflicted injuries | 101 | 11.2 | 5.8 | 19.7 | 95 | 11.2 | 5.7 | 19.8 |
| 13 | Liver cancer | 95 | 11 | 5.5 | 19.7 | 81 | 9.9 | 4.6 | 18.5 |
| 14 | Lymphoma/multiple myeloma | 93 | 10.4 | 5.1 | 18.9 | 89 | 10.6 | 5.1 | 19.5 |
| 15 | Pancreas cancer | 92 | 10.3 | 5 | 18.8 | 91 | 10.7 | 5.2 | 19.7 |
| Sources: CA. Dept. of Health Services, death master statistical file; CA Dept. of Finance, population projections. Deaths are San Francisco resident deaths. Rates are per 100,000 population. | |||||||||
| Age-adjusted rates are age-adjusted to standard US 2000 population. | |||||||||
| LCI, UCI: | Lower and upper 95% exact confidence intervals (CI), calculated for categories with 20 or more deaths. | ||||||||
Data Source
Data are compiled by Building a Healthier San Francisco - 2007 Community Health Assessment. Available at Health Matters in San Francisco, www.healthmattersinsf.org.
Explanation and Limitations
Age-adjusted rates are adjusted for differences in the age structures of populations or population groups, and so are well suited for comparing the overall force of mortality across different populations or within a population over time. Such comparisons are valid as long as they are all calculated by adjusting to the same standard population. Rates here are adjusted to the United States 2000 standard population, using the age categories of the Global Burden of Disease tables. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) suggests not using these rates for ranking, because they are subject to the weighting of the standard population.