Chronic disease | Overall choking | Food-related choking | ||||||
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Observed | Expected | Observed/expected | (95% CI) | Observed | Expected | Observed/expected | (95% CI) | |
Schizophrenia | 365 | 115 | 3.19 | (2.87 to 3.53) | 71 | 7 | 9.54 | (7.92 to 12.8) |
Parkinson’s disease | 4024 | 1492 | 2.70 | (2.61 to 2.78) | 273 | 97 | 2.82 | (2.49 to 3.17) |
Larynx cancer | 270 | 129 | 2.10 | (1.86 to 2.36) | 12 | 8 | 1.44 | (0.74 to 2.51) |
Alzheimer’s disease* | 21692 | 12559 | 1.73 | (1.70 to 1.75) | 1026 | 816 | 1.26 | (1.18 to 1.34) |
Oral cancer | 412 | 255 | 1.62 | (1.46 to 1.78) | 27 | 17 | 1.63 | (1.07 to 2.38) |
Stroke | 12210 | 7739 | 1.58 | (1.55 to 1.61) | 487 | 503 | 0.97 | (0.88 to 1.06) |
Mood (affective) disorders | 644 | 464 | 1.39 | (1.28 to 1.50) | 37 | 30 | 1.23 | (0.87 to 1.70) |
Oeophageal cancer | 391 | 417 | 0.94 | (0.85 to 1.04) | 6 | 27 | 0.22 | (0.08 to 0.49) |
Diabetes mellitus | 6329 | 7540 | 0.84 | (0.82 to 0.86) | 430 | 490 | 0.88 | (0.80 to 0.96) |
Chronic lower respiratory disease | 8360 | 9680 | 0.86 | (0.85 to 0.88) | 271 | 629 | 0.43 | (0.38 to 0.49) |
Nephrotic disease | 6009 | 7861 | 0.76 | (0.75 to 0.78) | 122 | 511 | 0.24 | (0.20 to 0.29) |
Heart disease | 27398 | 37137 | 0.74 | (0.73 to 0.75) | 1710 | 2413 | 0.71 | (0.68 to 0.74) |
*‘Mention’ can be as either an underlying or a contributory cause of death.
CDC WONDER, Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.