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Medical causes of death in a teaching hospital in South-Eastern Nigeria: A 16 year review.
[typhoid]
Most
developing
regions
of
the
world
are
undergoing
gradual
epidemiological
transition
resulting
in
high
burden
of
both
communicable
and
noncommunicable
diseases
.
This
affects
the
pattern
of
death
in
this
region
.
The
objective
of
this
study
is
to
determine
the
causes
of
death
in
the
medical
wards
of
the
University
of
Nigeria
Teaching
Hospital
,
Ituku
/
Ozalla
,
Enugu
,
South
-
East
Nigeria
from
1995
to
2010
.
Data
were
collected
retrospectively
from
January
1995
to
December
2010
.
Statistical
Package
for
Social
Sciences
(
SPSS
Inc
.
Chicago
,
IL
,
USA
)
version
17
.
0
was
used
.
Simple
descriptive
statistics
were
done
.
Student
's
t-test
was
used
to
compare
means
of
continuous
variables
,
while
Chi
-square
test
was
used
to
test
significance
of
differences
between
two
proportions
.
The
mortality
rate
was
22
.
8
%
(
6250
/
27
,
514
)
admissions
.
The
male
to
female
ratio
was
1
.
7
:
1
.
Infections
(
20
.
2
%
)
were
the
most
common
cause
of
death
.
However
,
chronic
kidney
disease
was
the
single
most
common
disease
entity
causing
death
(
12
.
3
%
)
.
Other
important
causes
of
death
in
order
of
prevalence
were
cerebrovascular
accident
(
10
.
5
%
)
,
acquired
immune
deficiency
syndrome
and
tuberculosis
either
alone
or
as
co
-infection
(
10
.
3
%
)
,
heart
failure
(
8
.
8
%
)
,
chronic
liver
disease
(
7
.
0
%
)
,
septicemia
(
6
.
5
%
)
,
respiratory
failure
(
5
.
3
%
)
,
diabetes
mellitus
(
4
.
6
%
)
,
cardiac
arrhythmias
(
2
.
9
%
)
,
and
primary
liver
cell
carcinoma
(
2
.
7
%
)
.
There
were
few
deaths
from
tetanus
,
malaria
,
typhoid
fever
,
and
coronary
artery
disease
.
Mortality
is
high
in
our
medical
wards
and
reflects
the
emerging
trend
of
mixed
disease
spectrum
comprising
communicable
and
noncommunicable
diseases
.
Diseases
Validation
Diseases presenting
"immune deficiency"
symptom
22q11.2 deletion syndrome
congenital diaphragmatic hernia
oculocutaneous albinism
omenn syndrome
pyomyositis
severe combined immunodeficiency
typhoid
wiskott-aldrich syndrome
This symptom has already been validated
