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Table 1 Underlying causes of death among violent offenders, victims, and individuals who were both victims and violent offenders among 48,834 Swedish conscripts

From: Mortality and causes of death among violent offenders and victims-a Swedish population based longitudinal study

 

Violent offenders

N = 2,139

Victims

N = 500

Offenders

and victims

N = 235

Others

N = 45,960

 

Death cases

n = 274

Death cases

n = 78

Death cases

n = 52

Death cases

n = 2,267

 

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

Accidents*#, N = 420

33

12.4

9

11.5

4

7.7

374

16.5

Undetermined suicide*, N = 62

13

4.7

1

1.3

1

1.9

47

2.1

Completed suicide*, N = 425

43

15.7

10

12.8

6

11.5

366

16.1

Alcohol-relateda, N = 455

95

34.7

29

37.2

20

38.4

311

13.7

Drug-related,**) N = 32

15

5.5

2

2.6

3

5.7

32

1.4

Circulatory disease*, N = 400

34

12.4

11

14.1

7

13.5

348

15.4

Neoplasm*, N = 560

28

10.2

7

9.0

3

5.8

522

23.0

Other causesab, N = 297

13

4.7

9

11.5

8

15.4

267

11.8

  1. a) 36 participants comorbid with drug misuse
  2. b) Other causes were: respiratory disease (n = 45), digestive problems (n = 47), endocrine problems (n = 55), a nervous system disorder (n = 57), infection (n = 20), and other diseases (n = 63)
  3. *) Death cases due to accidents, suicide, circulatory, neoplasm, and other causes with also alcohol or drug-related diagnoses were excluded
  4. **) Illicit narcotics-related
  5. *#) Death cases due to accidents were: violence (n = 32), fall (n = 28), traffic (n = 257), other injuries (n = 103)