Table 17 Causes of Death by Number and Percent of Total Deaths, by Male and Female 2008 Resident Data
	Total		Male		Female
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Total	28,370	100.0	13,562	100.0	14,808	100.0
Diseases of the Heart	7,268	25.6	3,451	25.4	3,817	25.8
Malignant Neoplasms	6,386	22.5	3,391	25.0	2,995	20.2
All Other Diseases	3,861	13.6	1,680	12.4	2,181	14.7
Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases	1,829	6.4	929	6.9	900	6.1
Cerebrovascular Diseases	1,685	5.9	646	4.8	1,039	7.0
Alzheimer's Disease	1,331	4.7	373	2.8	958	6.5
Unintentional Injuries	1,247	4.4	777	5.7	470	3.2
Influenza and Pneumonia	825	2.9	344	2.5	481	3.2
Diabetes Mellitus	761	2.7	350	2.6	411	2.8
All Infective and Parasitic Diseases	493	1.7	256	1.9	237	1.6
Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Findings, Not Elsewhere Classified	376	1.3	93	0.7	283	1.9
Suicides	376	1.3	305	2.2	71	0.5
Nephritis, Nephrotic Syndrome, and Nephrosis	299	1.1	142	1.0	157	1.1
Essential Hypertension and Hypertensive Renal Disease	267	0.9	91	0.7	176	1.2
Other Diseases of Circulatory System	222	0.8	130	1.0	92	0.6
Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis	217	0.8	131	1.0	86	0.6
Benign Neoplasms, Carcinoma in Situ, and Neoplasms of Uncertain   Behavior and of Unspecified Nature	197	0.7	106	0.8	91	0.6
Atherosclerosis	181	0.6	77	0.6	104	0.7
Congenital Malformations, Deformations and Chromosomal Abnormalities	112	0.4	56	0.4	56	0.4
Certain Conditions Originating in the Perinatal Period	90	0.3	42	0.3	48	0.3
Homicide and Legal Intervention	80	0.3	54	0.4	26	0.2
Peptic Ulcer	62	0.2	35	0.3	27	0.2
Other External Causes	47	0.2	32	0.2	15	0.1
Cholelithiasis and Other Disorders of the Gallbladder	44	0.2	18	0.1	26	0.2
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome	35	0.1	17	0.1	18	0.1
Anemias	33	0.1	13	0.1	20	0.1
Meningitis	14	0.0	6	0.0	8	0.1
Infections of Kidney	11	0.0	4	0.0	7	0.0
Hyperplasia of Prostate	11	0.0	11	0.1	-	-
Complications of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Puerperium	7	0.0	-	-	7	0.0
Acute Bronchitis and Bronchiolitis	3	0.0	2	0.0	1	0.0