Table 1
Number of deaths and crude mortality rate per 100,000 population for diabetes mellitus as underlying and contributing cause, by sex, age group, neighbourhood income quintile and province/territory, Canada, 2004 to 2008

Table 1
Number of deaths and crude mortality rate per 100,000 population for diabetes mellitus as underlying and contributing cause, by sex, age group, neighbourhood income quintile and province/territory, Canada, 2004 to 2008
Table summary
This table displays the results of Number of deaths and crude mortality rate per 100 Underlying cause , Contributing cause , Ratio (contributing to underlying) and Total (appearing as column headers).
  Underlying causeNote † Contributing cause Ratio (contributing to underlying) Total
Number of deaths Crude rate Number of deaths Crude rate Number of deaths Crude rate
Both sexes 37,041 22.7 83,009 50.9 2.24 120,050 73.6
Male 19,201 23.8 44,214 54.7 2.30 63,415 78.5
Female 17,840 21.7 38,795 47.2 2.17 56,635 68.9
Age group (years)Note ‡  
Younger than 45 757 0.8 841 0.9 1.11 1,598 1.6
45 to 64 5,672 13.0 11,477 26.3 2.02 17,149 39.3
65 to 74 7,311 63.7 17,869 155.8 2.44 25,180 219.6
75 to 84 12,994 171.2 30,964 408.0 2.38 43,958 579.1
85 or older 10,307 394.1 21,857 835.8 2.12 32,164 1229.9
Neighbourhood income quintileNote §  
Lowest 9,973 31.4 21,283 67.1 2.13 31,256 98.5
Second 8,109 25.7 18,472 58.5 2.28 26,581 84.2
Third 6,861 21.8 15,937 50.5 2.32 22,798 72.3
Fourth 6,458 20.4 14,439 45.7 2.24 20,897 66.2
Highest 5,346 17.2 12,209 39.2 2.28 17,555 56.4
Province/Territory  
Newfoundland 1,139 44.6 2,248 88.0 1.97 3,387 132.6
Prince Edward Island 134 19.4 308 44.6 2.30 442 63.9
Nova Scotia 1,259 26.9 3,377 72.0 2.68 4,636 98.9
New Brunswick 1,162 31.1 2,006 53.7 1.73 3,168 84.8
Quebec 7,769 20.3 16,187 42.4 2.08 23,956 62.7
Ontario 14,757 23.3 34,378 54.3 2.33 49,135 77.6
Manitoba 2,053 34.6 3,016 50.8 1.47 5,069 85.4
Saskatchewan 1,550 31.0 2,912 58.3 1.88 4,462 89.3
Alberta 2,153 12.6 8,232 48.2 3.82 10,385 60.8
British Columbia 5,035 23.7 10,271 48.2 2.04 15,306 71.9
Yukon 18 11.2 37 22.9 2.06 55 34.1
Northwest Territories 11 5.1 33 15.2 3.00 44 20.3
Nunavut Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
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Note †

when a diabetes mellitis condition is reported as the underlying cause and other diabetes mellitis condition(s) is(are) listed as a contributing cause for the same death, diabetes mellitus is considered to be underlying cause

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Note ‡

one case missing

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Note §

243 cases missing

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Source: Vital Statistics, Multiple Cause of Death File, 2004 to 2008.
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