Evaluating the Cause of Death in Obese Individuals: A Ten-Year Medical Autopsy Study

Table 2

Comparison of the cause of death in obese and nonobese individuals.

Cause of death	Obese (274)		Nonobese (575)		value
Malignancy	86	31.4%	187	32.5%	0.785
Infection	71	25.9%	137	23.8%	0.566
Ischemic heart disease	35	12.8%	60	10.4%	0.341
Stroke	12	4.4%	15	2.6%	0.176
Pulmonary embolism	17	6.2%	17	2.9%	0.027
Hemorrhage	11	4.0%	36	6.3%	0.193
Genitourinary	5	1.8%	7	1.2%	0.486
Liver	8	2.9%	4	0.7%	0.011
Lung	10	3.6%	36	6.3%	0.126
Skin	1	0.4%	1	0.2%	0.592
Nonischemic heart disease	11	4.0%	45	7.8%	0.043
Neurologic	1	0.4%	17	3.0%	0.015
Gastrointestinal ischemia	4	1.4%	5	1.0%	0.434
Hematologic	2	0.8%	0	0%	0.040
Undetermined	0	0%	8	1.4%	0.051