Table 6 Cause-specific mortality fractions (%) among adults aged 65 and above (n=458), Dakar pilot study, 2019

Stroke

25.1

23.1

27.7

Other and unspecified cardiac diseases

12.6

15.5

8.9

Diabetes mellitus

8.3

9

7.4

Acute cardiac disease

6.9

6.8

7.1

Pulmonary tuberculosis

4.4

6.1

2.3

Digestive neoplasms

3.9

4.6

2.9

Other and unspecified neoplasms

3.5

5.1

1.5

Acute resp infect incl pneumonia

3.1

3.0

3.3

Reproductive neoplasms

2.6

0.9

4.9

Renal failure

2.3

2.2

2.4

HIV/AIDS related death

2.1

2.6

1.5

Respiratory neoplasms

2.1

3.3

0.5

Other causes

10.2

7.5

13.6

Undetermined

12.9

10.5

16.0

Number of deaths

458

258

200