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Table 2 Trends in the leading causes of mortality in Palawan from 2005 to 2009
| Causes of mortality | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top 10 | Number | Ratea | Top 10 | Number | Ratea | Top 10 | Number | Ratea | Top 10 | Number | Ratea | Top 10 | Number | Ratea | |
| Pneumonia | 1st | 239 | 37.0 | 1st | 224 | 33.7 | 1st | 313 | 46.0 | 1st | 285 | 41.0 | 1st | 337 | 43.1 |
| Hypertension | 2nd | 155 | 24.0 | 5th | 101 | 15.2 | 7th | 78 | 11.5 | 4th | 108 | 13.8 | |||
| Pulmonary tuberculosis | 3rd | 128 | 20.0 | 3rd | 122 | 18.3 | 4th | 163 | 24.0 | 4th | 97 | 14.0 | 6th | 99 | 12.7 |
| Unspecified natural cause | 4th | 123 | 19.0 | 9th | 60 | 9.0 | 3rd | 181 | 26.7 | 10th | 57 | 8.2 | |||
| Cancer | 5th | 105 | 16.0 | 4th | 105 | 15.7 | 5th | 137 | 20.1 | 2nd | 107 | 15.4 | 2nd | 123 | 15.8 |
| Diarrhea | 6th | 95 | 15.0 | 8th | 63 | 9.5 | 6th | 125 | 18.4 | 8th | 72 | 9.2 | |||
| Myocardial infarction | 7th | 83 | 13.0 | 2nd | 147 | 22.1 | 8th | 59 | 8.5 | ||||||
| Accident/wound/injury | 8th | 67 | 10.0 | ||||||||||||
| Stillbirth | 9th | 56 | 9.0 | 6th | 63 | 9.1 | |||||||||
| Myocarditis | 10th | 54 | 8.0 | 8th | 76 | 11.2 | 9th | 59 | 8.5 | 9th | 69 | 8.8 | |||
| Congestive heart failure | 6th | 87 | 13.1 | ||||||||||||
| Renal failure | 7th | 80 | 12.0 | 9th | 72 | 10.6 | 7th | 63 | 9.1 | 7th | 77 | 9.8 | |||
| Peptic ulcer | 10th | 54 | 8.0 | ||||||||||||
| Cardiovascular disease | 2nd | 295 | 43.4 | 3rd | 103 | 14.9 | 5th | 101 | 12.9 | ||||||
| Cerebrovascular accident | 5th | 85 | 12.2 | 3rd | 111 | 14.2 | |||||||||
| Diabetes mellitus | 10th | 64 | 8.2 | ||||||||||||
