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Fewer cot deaths
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Causes of death (terminated in Statistics Norway), 1997

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Fewer cot deaths

In 1997, 27 infants under 1 year of age died a sudden death of unknown cause (SIDS). That is 8 fewer than in the previous year. There has been a marked decline in children dying of unknown causes since 1989 when 142 cot deaths were registered.

In 1997 there were 251 deaths among children in their first year of life. 171 of these deaths occurred in the first four weeks of life.

Children 0-1 year of age who died in cot deaths, 1986-1997

533 suicides

There were 44,646 deaths in 1997: 22,282 men and 22,364 women. Over six per cent of the men and about four per cent of the women died as a result of accidents, injuries, suicides and murders. Most violent deaths were due to accidents, and one out of four accidents was transport-related. Suicides also constitute a relatively large percentage of the violent deaths. In 1997 533 suicides, 41 murders and 19 deaths of uncertain external causes were registered. This is about the same as in 1996. In 56 of the violent deaths, the death was regarded as a delayed result of a previous external cause, just as in 1996.

44 per cent died of cardiovascular diseases

Nearly 77 per cent of all deaths in 1997 were caused by the following three disease categories: cardiovascular diseases, malignant tumours and respiratory diseases.

Totally 19,521 people, or 44 per cent, died of cardiovascular diseases. The number who died from ischaemic heart disease constituted 47 per cent of cardiovascular diseases in 1997, whereas 26 per cent died from circulatory lesions in the central nervous system.

The number who died from malignant tumours came to 10,649 in 1997, with slightly more men than women. Tumours in the digestive organs constituted 30 per cent of these deaths. Tumours in the respiratory organs accounted for 17 per cent, while leukaemia and other tumours in blood-forming organs constituted 9 per cent.

Respiratory diseases accounted for a total of 4,010 deaths in 1997. Influenza and pneumonia accounted for well over half of these deaths.

Increase of diabetes mellitus deaths

Statistics Norway (SSB) gathers additional information from doctors and hospitals and/or institutions when the death certificate is unclear or insufficient to ensure correct diagnostic coding. In 1997 emphasis was put on gathering more additional information for cases of diabetes mellitus. The form for additional information contains questions about the type and durability of the disease, possible complications and whether the disease is supposed to be the underlying cause of death. The additional information gives a more certain basis for coding deaths where diabetes mellitus is among the reported diagnoses. This quality assurance has resulted in more deaths being registered as due to diabetes mellitus in 1997 than in previous years. There were 738 deaths of this sort in 1997 compared with 506 in 1996. Thus, we must be cautious in interpreting the increase as anything other than an increase resulting from an increased focus on this disease category.

 

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