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7.8 Mortality
7.8.1 Causes of Death
The main causes of death in Hull are cancer and coronary heart disease (CHD), and
these two causes account for more than half of all deaths under the age of 75 years. A
sizeable proportion of cancer deaths are due to lung cancer. There were some
differences between males and females as illustrated by Figure 56 and Figure 57 which
show the main causes of death for men and women respectively who die under the age
of 75 years in the three year period 2007-2009. The percentage of deaths in those aged
under 75 years that were caused by cancer were higher in women (43%) than in men
(33%), although the number of cancer deaths in those aged under 75 years remained
higher in men (597) than women (484), due to the propensity of men to die earlier than
women. The percentage of under 75 deaths in men due to CHD (18%) was two thirds
higher than for women (11%). The total number of deaths over the three year period is
given adjacent to the category label.
There was little difference in the cause of death for males aged under 75 years among
the three Localities (Figure 58, Figure 59 and Figure 60).
Amongst women dying under the age of 75 years those in the North Locality were more
likely to die from cancer or CHD (60%) than women in East (53%) or West (50%)
Localities (Figure 61, Figure 62 and Figure 63).
The underlying data are given within the figures, and also given in the APPENDIX on
page 850.
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