Table 5

Correlation of relative changes in all cause mortality at ages 55–69 with relative mortality changes in specific causes of death at ages 80–89, for men and women born to the centralised birth cohorts 1895–1910 among seven European countries

Causes of death at ages 80–89	All	Men	Women	Cohort change† 1895–1900	Cohort change† 1900–1905	Cohort change† 1905–1910
Causes of death at ages 80–89	N = 42	N = 21	N = 21	N = 14	N = 14	N = 14
†Relative change in mortality rates between the two subsequent centralised birth cohorts. ‡This refers to all diseases not included in this table—that is, all cause mortality minus all circulatory diseases, all cancers, infectious diseases, pneumonia, diabetes mellitus, dementia, “all symptoms and ill defined conditions”, and all external causes of death. Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (two tailed); *correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (two tailed).
All circulatory diseases	0.58**	0.66**	0.14	0.63*	0.54*	0.51
All cancers	0.69**	0.54*	0.49*	0.64*	0.79**	0.50
All other causes	0.17	0.40	0.19	0.26	0.14	0.42
Diseases specifically related to old age within “all other causes”:
Infectious diseases	0.01	0.15	0.26	−0.15	0.14	0.43
Pneumonia	−0.03	−0.14	−0.23	−0.15	0.14	0.25
Diabetes mellitus	0.44**	0.11	0.42	0.44	0.33	0.55*
Dementia	0.18	0.25	0.21	−0.23	0.37	0.44
All symptoms and ill defined conditions	0.07	−0.12	0.62**	−0.25	0.13	0.35
All other diseases‡	0.22	0.67**	0.13	0.45	−0.03	0.17
All external causes of death	0.39*	0.33	−0.09	0.42	0.36	0.18