N* | OR (per 1 μg/m3 PM10) | Lower 95% CI | Upper 95% CI | |
Model | ||||
All deaths, all ethnicities | 1 065 645 | 1.007 | 1.003 | 1.010 |
All deaths, living in the same census area as for the 1991 census | 601 401 | 1.008 | 1.004 | 1.011 |
All natural causes, all ethnicities (excludes accidents and injury) | 1 063 563 | 1.007 | 1.003 | 1.010 |
All natural causes, European | 940 107 | 1.006 | 1.003 | 1.010 |
All natural causes, Maori | 87 615 | 1.018 | 1.007 | 1.029 |
Analyses by specific cause of death, based on ICD9 codes† | ||||
Lung cancers (ICD 162) | 1 050 222 | 1.015 | 1.004 | 1.026 |
Respiratory disease (ICD 162, 470–478, 490–519) | 1 051 464 | 1.013 | 1.005 | 1.021 |
Cardiovascular disease (ICD 393–438) | 1 054 731 | 1.006 | 1.001 | 1.011 |
Accidents and injury (ICD 800–949) | 1 049 646 | 1.004 | 0.990 | 1.018 |
Other, includes unspecified‡ | 1 056 288 | 1.005 | 1.001 | 1.010 |
↵* Rounded.
↵† Note: Models included persons dying from the specified causes (coded 1) and people presumed alive at the end of follow-up (coded 0), but excluded persons dying from other causes. Respiratory disease includes lung cancers.
↵‡ ‘Other’ deaths are all those deaths (including unspecified) that are not included among lung cancer, respiratory, cardiovascular disease or accidents.
ICD, International Classification of Diseases.