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The hospital autopsy rate during the study period was 36.2%, and 62.5 per cent of these post-mortems were medico-legal cases.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>The most common indications for coroner's autopsies were sudden natural deaths (55.6%), followed by accidental deaths (35.3%). The proportions of maternal (4.3%), homicidal (3.1%) and suicidal (0.3%) deaths were much lower.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>The male to female ratio was 1.7 to 1. Ninety-one (10.4%) of the cases fell within the paediatric age group and the peak age incidence for these cases was in the 5\u201314 years age group. The remaining 785 (89.6%) cases were adults and the peak age incidence for these cases was in the fourth decade of life.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>The most common cause of sudden natural death was cardiovascular disease, of which hypertension constituted the majority of cases. Other major causes of sudden death included pneumonia, meningitis, typhoid fever and neoplastic diseases.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Road traffic accidents accounted for 78 per cent of accidental deaths followed by falls (13.3%) and burns (4.6%).<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Abortions, post-partum haemorrhage and eclampsia were the major causes of maternal deaths in the present study.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Homicidal deaths were eight times more frequent in male than female victims and the commonest mode of death was gunshot injuries.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Suicidal deaths remain extremely uncommon in African patients, as confirmed by our study.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/002580249703700115","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,1,18]],"date-time":"2017-01-18T07:41:55Z","timestamp":1484725315000},"page":"69-75","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["A Prospective Study of Coroner's Autopsies in University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"37","author":[{"given":"C N T","family":"Amakiri","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pathology, University College Hospital, PMB 5116, Ibadan, Nigeria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"E E U","family":"Akang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pathology, University College Hospital, PMB 5116, Ibadan, Nigeria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"P U","family":"Aghadiuno","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pathology, University College Hospital, PMB 5116, Ibadan, Nigeria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"W O","family":"Odesanmi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pathology, University College Hospital, PMB 5116, Ibadan, Nigeria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[1997,1]]},"reference":[{"issue":"2","key":"e_1_2_1_2_1","first-page":"30","article-title":"Childhood mortality in Ibadan \u2014 an autopsy study","volume":"19","author":"Akang E. 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