Number and prevalence for the different causes of death in the elderly Cypriot population during the study period.

Table 1: Number and prevalence for the different causes of death in the elderly Cypriot population during the study period.

Cause of death	Deaths (n)	Prevalence (%)
Diseases of the circulatory system	17,899	41.52
Neoplasms	7,521	17.45^†
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases	3,753	8.71^†
Diseases of the respiratory system	3,708	8.60
Symptoms, signs, abnormal findings, ill-defined causes	2,532	5.87^†
Diseases of the genitourinary system	1,586	3.68^†
Diseases of the digestive system	1,475	3.42
External causes of morbidity and mortality	1,347	3.12^*
Diseases of the nervous system and the sense organs	1,203	2.79^*
Mental and behavioural disorders	676	1.57^†
Infectious and parasitic diseases	577	1.34^*
Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism	291	0.68^†
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue	278	0.64
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system/connective tissue	237	0.55
Congenital malformations and chromosomal abnormalities	24	0.06^†
Total	43,107

Note: ^*Indicates statistically significant difference from the above death cause at p ≤ 0.05; ^†Indicates statistically significant difference from the above death cause at p ≤ 0.001.