You asked
Please provide the following information:
How many cases have there been of commotio cordis in the UK in the past 5 years?
How many of those cases have involved children/young people under the age of 19 years?
How many of those cases occurred during sporting events?
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
We produce mortality statistics for England and Wales, using the information provided when a death is registered. Underlying cause of death is coded using version 10 of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10).
There is no specific ICD-10 code for deaths to commotio cordis. The death would likely be assigned an underlying cause code from chapter XX (External causes of morbidity and mortality) and also a nature of injury code known as a secondary cause code, which in this case would be S26.9 (Injury of heart, unspecified).
For example a death that occurred during a sporting event may be assigned the primary code W21 (Striking against or struck by sports equipment) or W22 (Striking against or struck by other objects) and the secondary code S26.9 (Injury of heart, unspecified). We do not routinely publish primary and secondary causes of death together.
More information about secondary causes is available from section 9.2 of our user guide to mortality statistics: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/methodologies/userguidetomortalitystatisticsjuly2017#cause-of-death-coding
The total number of deaths assigned the secondary code S26.9, broken down by age group, are available from table 6 of our deaths registered in England and Wales (series DR) publication: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsregisteredinenglandandwalesseriesdrreferencetables
2013 to 2016 mortality data for England and Wales is available from our explorable dataset, and can be filtered by by geography, sex, age and underlying cause: https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/select/getdatasetbytheme.asp?theme=73
Prior to this, mortality data by underlying cause of death and age is available in table 5 of our deaths registered in England and Wales (series DR) publication: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsregisteredinenglandandwalesseriesdrreferencetables
Mortality statistics for Northern Ireland are available here: https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/births-deaths-and-marriages/deaths
Mortality statistics for Scotland are available here: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/vital-events/deaths
Deaths that occurred in a sporting or athletics area can be obtained from the customer services team of the Vital Statistics Outputs Branch. 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 should be made to:
Vital Statistics Outputs Branch
Office for National Statistics
Segensworth Road
Titchfield
Fareham
Hampshire
PO15 5RR
Tel: +44 (0)1329 444 110
E-mail: vsob@ons.gov.uk
If you would like any further information, you can contact the team directly at: vsob@ons.gov.uk