Registry studies are studies where two cause-of-death registers are compared.
The more deaths, the more likely it is to find differences between the two causes-of-death and then the concordance.
We describe the differences between the two cause-of-death variables for the 5,065 deceased patients out of the 10,534 women diagnosed with breast cancer between 1970 and 2009.
We used the Kappa statistic to compare concordance between the two cause-of-death variables for all patients who had died (N = 5,065).
The top three causes of death in 2004 were heart disease, cancer, and stroke.
It is among the top three causes of death in the population aged between 15 and 34.
Pneumonia was one of three causes of death given at Thomas's postmortem examination, along with brain swelling and a fatty liver.
In 2001, the US numbered 30,622 suicides, a figure that rose to 38,000 in 2010, making it among the top three causes of death in the under-35s.
On and off campus, there is an epidemic of suicide among young people that is one of the top three causes of death in that age group.
At the post-mortem, the pathologist found three causes of death – pneumonia, brain swelling and a fatty liver.
In the mid 1990's, HIV/AIDS accounted for the top three causes of death in the United States [1].
