For most specific causes of death, SMRs were less than 100 (Supplementary Table S1 on website).
Relative to the general population, mortality in the cohort was lower for all-causes (SMR=0.89), reflecting lower risks for most specific causes except, as expected, for endocrine and metabolic diseases (SMR=1.99) (Table 2).
Among dogs, cancer was the most common specific cause of death or euthanasia as registered by a Swedish animal insurance company.
The most common specific causes of death according to SEER were malignant cancer (35%), in situ, benign, or unknown behavior neoplasm (25%), and diseases of the heart (15%).
From the Agria insurance database, the most common specific causes of death in dogs are tumour, trauma, locomotor and heart problems [ 22].
Among the most common specific causes of LBP are disorders of the lumbar intervertebral disks resulting in irritation of the lumbar nerve roots.
Neck pain, often combined with shoulder pain, is prevalent in working life but in most cases a specific cause for the pain is missing [ 1].
Although feces is the most convenient specimen type for detecting EVs for surveillance purposes, detecting EV in fecal samples is not the most specific way to confirm the cause of an individual patient's symptoms (4 ).
Bambang et al 49 was most concerned with specific causes of perinatal death in one English region; the association with deprivation varied relatively little with cause, and combining the causes gave an OR of 1.91 (95% CI 1.66 to 2.20) comparing extreme quintiles based on Townsend scores.
Tra1-L3733A was characterized in more detail, as it caused the most specific growth defects.
