[Gender difference in the mortality and prevalence in Japan].

For any given disease, incidence is the number of new cases each year, prevalence is the number of people with the disease at a point in time, and mortality is the number who die from that cause each year. The value of mortality rate male (per 100,000 male) was 1068.9 as of 2012 and that of female was 929.7. The top 5 cause-specific mortality were malignant neoplasms, cardiac disease, pneumonia, cerebrovascular disease and accidents for male, and were malignant neoplasms, cardiac disease, cerebrovascular disease, pneumonia and senile decay for female. Although there are considerable uncertainty and limitations in data of incidence and prevalence survey, medical outpatient treatment recipients ratio (per 100,000 population) were 358.8 for male and 396.3 for female.