Causes of death in realtion to SSc in 49 patients
| Cause of death | Relation with SSc | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Definite | Probable | Possible | None | lSSc/dSSc | |
| Pulmonary disease | 10 | 7/3 | |||
| Renal disease | 1 | 0/1 | |||
| Cardiovascular | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1/9 |
| Gastrointestinal | 3 | 1 | 4/0 | ||
| Cancer | 7 | 5 | 9/3 | ||
| Infection | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2/7 | |
| Suicide | 2 | 1/1 | |||
| Other | 1 | 1/0 | |||
| lSSc/dSSc | 10/5 | 4/6 | 8/6 | 3/7 | 25/24 |