Deaths per year due to cardiothoracic and cardiological reasons 2015 to 2021

FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3063​

You asked

Please supply the number of deaths per year due to cardiothoracic and cardiological reasons for the last six years including 2015 into 2021. Please provide a breakdown by age group.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry requesting deaths by specific ICD10 code for 2015 to 2021 in England and Wales.

2015 - 2020 data

All of the conditions mentioned on the death certificate are coded using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) the coded mortality data available up to end of December 2019 is coded to version 2014 of the ICD10 framework. From all of these causes an underlying cause of death is selected using ICD-10 coding rules. The underlying cause of death is defined by World Health Organisation (WHO) as:

a) the disease or injury that initiated the train of events directly leading to death, or

b) the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the fatal injury

The following ICD-10 codes are available for deaths involving circulatory system.

• Chronic rheumatic heart diseases (I05-I09)

• Diseases of arteries, arterioles and capillaries (I70-I79)

• Diseases of veins, lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes, not elsewhere classified (I80-I89)

• Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69)

• Ischemic heart diseases (I20-I25)

• Hypertensive diseases (I10-I15)

• Other forms of heart disease (I30-I52)

• Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems

Using NOMIS webservice, we have provided mortality data with the above ICD-10 codes and five-year age disaggregation for England and Wales from 2015-2020. Please see the attached Excel workbook.

If this does not meet your needs, we may be able to create a custom output if you can specify the specific ICD-10 codes you require. Information on Deaths registered in England and Wales by specific ICD-10 code, as either underlying cause of death or contributory mention for 2015 to 2020, along with other special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate).

Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and should be made to: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.

2021 data

Whilst we hold the data, we have not yet completed full analysis as it is still in provisional format. Unfortunately, we would be unable to provide you with a full ICD-10 breakdown of deaths registered in 2021. In order to fulfil this request, we would need to create a bespoke analysis or table. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information in order to respond to requests. We therefore consider this to be information not held.

However, we do publish deaths registered in 2021 by leading causes of death, which includes Ischaemic heart disease in Table 11a and 11b of our Monthly Mortality analysis. This publication will be updated in November 2021.