FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3104
You asked
Please supply data relating to the number of deaths per year from myocarditis for the last 10 years by age and sex. Please provide the data available for 2021 so far.
We said
Thank you for your request.
We are responsible for the production of mortality data for England and Wales, this is derived from death certificates in the process of death registration. If you require Scotland and Northern Ireland statistics, please contact National Records Scotland and NISRA respectively.
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
We have published mortality data by cause for 2013 to 2020 in the explorable dataset available on our NOMIS webservice. This explorable dataset can be used to extract figures where myocarditis (I40) was recorded as the underlying cause of death.
- Select the geography (England and Wales, regional or by local authority).
- Select Date - years available from 2013 to 2020
- Select Age - All ages or 5 year age bands.
- Select Gender - Total or Male/Female
- Select rates - All deaths, rates or percentage of population for example.
- Select cause of death (ICD10 code search is available). (I40)
- Select format (Excel or CSV for example)
We also have a back series of data as part of our 21st century mortality, which contains all-cause mortality data by ICD code, age and sex, 2001-2020, England and Wales. These figures contain four digit ICD codes which are sub groups of a cause. All codes relating to myocarditis are:
I40: Acute myocarditis
- I400: Infective myocarditis
- I401: Infective myocarditis
- I408: Other acute myocarditis
- I409: Acute myocarditis, unspecified
We do not hold analysis for 2021 on myocarditis by sex and age. In order to fulfil this request, we would need to create bespoke analysis. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information to respond to requests. However, we do intend to update our NOMIS website with 2021 data once the data have been finalised in 2022.
If you would like to discuss this query further, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.