High Israeli mortality rates from diabetes and renal failure - Can international comparison of multiple causes of death reflect differences in choice of underlying cause?

Table 2 The Cause of Death Association Indicator (CDAI), 2009^a

Source of data: Italy [14], France [15], USA [16], Czech Republic [17]
Formula for CDAI [3] \( \mathit{\mathsf{C}}\mathit{\mathsf{D}}\mathit{\mathsf{A}}{\mathit{\mathsf{I}}}_{\mathit{\mathsf{u}},\mathit{\mathsf{c}}}=\frac{{\displaystyle {\sum}_{\mathit{\mathsf{x}}}\frac{{}_{\mathit{\mathsf{u}}}\mathit{\mathsf{d}}_{\mathit{\mathsf{c}},\mathit{\mathsf{x}}}}{{}_{\mathit{\mathsf{u}}}\mathit{\mathsf{d}}_{\mathit{\mathsf{x}}}}.{\overline{\mathit{\mathsf{d}}}}_{\mathit{\mathsf{x}}}}}{{\displaystyle {\sum}_{\mathit{\mathsf{x}}}\frac{{\mathit{\mathsf{d}}}_{\mathit{\mathsf{c}},\mathit{\mathsf{x}}}}{{\mathit{\mathsf{d}}}_{\mathit{\mathsf{x}}}}.{\overline{\mathit{\mathsf{d}}}}_{\mathit{\mathsf{x}}}}}*\mathsf{100} \)
\( {}_{\mathit{\mathsf{u}}}\mathit{\mathsf{d}}_{\mathit{\mathsf{c}},\mathit{\mathsf{x}}} \) = number of deaths observed at age x with underlying cause u and contributing cause c
\( {}_{\mathit{\mathsf{u}}}\mathit{\mathsf{d}}_{\mathit{\mathsf{x}}} \) = number of deaths observed at age x with cause u as underlying cause
d _c,x = total number of deaths observed at age x with cause c as contributing cause (regardless of the underlying cause)
d _x = total number of deaths observed at age x (regardless of the underlying cause)
\( \overline{{\mathit{\mathsf{d}}}_{\mathit{\mathsf{x}}}} \) = standard number of deaths at age x (number of deaths from the 2009 WHO life table for high income countries)
^aCzech Republic - 2011
^b Significantly above 100 with 95 % CI calculated as specified in [4]

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