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Table 2 Number and proportion of detailed cause-specific deaths among participants

From: Associations between five indicators of epigenetic age acceleration and all-cause and cause-specific mortality among US adults aged 50 years and older

Characteristic

Frequency (n)

Percentage (%)

Cardiovascular

Heart diseases

265

26.13

Cerebrovascular diseases

51

5.03

Non-cardiovascular

Cancer

209

20.61

Diabetes mellitus

51

5.03

Respiratory disease

76

7.50

Renal disease

21

2.07

Alzheimer disease

48

4.73

All other causes

293

28.9

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Clinical Epigenetics

ISSN: 1868-7083

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