Table 3

 Cross tabulation of registration and verbal autopsy diagnoses for specific communicable and non-communicable diseases in rural China, 2002

VA diagnosisRegistration diagnosesTotal
StrokeCOPDOther cardiac diseasesIHDIll-defined conditionsLiver cancerStomach cancerLung cancerHypertensive diseaseOesophageal cancerLiver diseasesPerinatal conditionsTuberculosisPneumoniaOther digestive disordersColorectal cancerDiabetesRheumatic heart diseaseCongenital malformationsOther cancersAll other diseases
COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; IHD, ishaemic heart disease; VA, verbal autopsy.
Stroke3663318179121523113125497
COPD613110251735329133115297
Other cardiac diseases11131416511215473
IHD15131468551412128
Ill-defined conditions401922316114232341135229
Liver cancer11711322113086
Stomach cancer642267421189
Lung cancer22414581112379
Hypertensive disease644471911450
Oesophageal cancer22114437152
Liver diseases122722831854
Perinatal conditions142631136
Tuberculosis8112231511750
Pneumonia21142161440
Other digestive disorders13381211122111349
Colorectal cancer111119124
Diabetes111222229
Rheumatic heart disease22224113
Congenital malformations1213319
Other cancers2213221128529
All other diseases2212141116374528632710326425559
Total4822522241691379291885945433634323129272220195502482