Global reporting of pulmonary embolism-related deaths in the World Health Organization mortality database: Vital registration data from 123 countries.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pulmonary embolism (PE) has not been accounted for as a cause of death contributing to cause-specific mortality in global reports.

Methods

We analyzed global PE-related mortality by focusing on the latest year available for each member state in the World Health Organization (WHO) mortality database, which provides age-sex-specific aggregated mortality data transmitted by national authorities for each underlying cause of death. PE-related deaths were defined by International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision codes for acute PE or nonfatal manifestations of venous thromboembolism (VTE). The 2001 WHO standard population served for standardization.

Results

We obtained data from 123 countries covering a total population of 2 602 561 422. Overall, 50 (

SUBMITTER: Barco S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8268665 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature