Investor Presentaiton
Underlying Causes of Death
Top 10 Leading Causes of Death
Border Counties
Texas
for 2020^
Cause of Death
Total
Death Rate
Rank
Total
Death Rate
Rank
COVID-191
6,765
238.3
1
31,273
105.4
3
Diseases of heart
4,745
167.1
2
49,797
167.8
1
Malignant neoplasms
3,285
115.7
3
41,880
141.1
2
Alzheimer's disease
1,204
42.4
4
11,838
39.9
5
Diabetes mellitus
1,166
41.1
5
7,903
26.6
8
Accidents
870
30.6
6
12,600
42.5
Cerebrovascular diseases
837
29.5
7
11,570
39
6
Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
673
23.7
8
4,898
16.5
9
Chronic lower respiratory disease
626
22
9
10,338
34.8
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome
and nephrosis
531
18.7
10
10
4,372
14.7
10
1 Count of COVID-19 Related Deaths as determined by visual inspection of Texas death certificates conducted by the Department of State Health Services Laboratory and Infectious Disease Services Division as of
September 24, 2021. All other death totals in this report are calculated based on underlying cause ICD-10 codes assigned to the death record by the National Center for Health Statistics.
CDR: Crude Death Rate per 100,000 populations. Population projections for 2020 provided by the Texas Demographics Center.
^Death data for 2020 are provisional. Provisional statistics are based on data that has not yet been finalized and may be incomplete and subject to change.
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