Deaths caused by kidney stone disease

FOI REF: FOI/2023/4836

You asked

I would like to request data on deaths caused by kidney stone disease (several ICD codes applicable). This information will help us improve and help patients with kidney stones and hopefully reduce their morbidity from it.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry

Our mortality data comes from the information collected at death registration. All of the conditions mentioned on the death certificate are coded using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). 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 WHO as:

• The disease or injury that initiated the train of events directly leading to death, or

• The circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the fatal injury

The ICD-10 codes assigned to calculus of the kidney are:

• N20.0 Calculus of kidney

• Nephrolithiasis NOS

• Renal calculus or stone

• Staghorn calculus

• Stone in kidney

• N20.1 Calculus of ureter

• Ureteric stone

• N20.2 Calculus of kidney with calculus of ureter

• N20.9 Urinary calculus, unspecified

We can also supply:

• N21Calculus of lower urinary tract incl: with cystitis and urethritis

• N21.0 Calculus in bladder

• Including Calculus in diverticulum of bladder and Urinary bladder stone

• Excl: staghorn calculus (N20.0)

• N21.1 Calculus in urethra

• N21.8 Other lower urinary tract calculus

• N21.9 Calculus of lower urinary tract, unspecified

• N22 Calculus of urinary tract in diseases classified elsewhere

• N22.0 Urinary calculus in schistosomiasis (bilharziasis) (B65)

• N22.8 Calculus of urinary tract in other diseases classified elsewhere

• N23 Unspecified renal colic

You can access annual mortality figures where the above ICD-10 codes are the underlying cause of death between 2013-2021 by using the interactive dataset available on our NOMIS webservice.

We have created an output from NOMIS showing the above ICD0-10 codes in England and Wales (total mortality including non-residents and the figures for non-residents). Please see the associated download "Deaths due to kidney stones.xlsx". If you would like further disaggregation such as age, sex, lower geography or additional ICD-10 codes please see the following instructions:

• Select dates (2013 to 2021)

• Select the geography (England and Wales, regional or by local authority).

• 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)

• Select format (Excel or CSV for example)  

Historic data is available in our 21st Century mortality dataset which provides the number of deaths per ICD-10 code by 5-year age band in England and Wales.

2022 data will be available in NOMIS in July 2023, this is to allow the inclusion of late registrations which are deaths referred for Coroner investigation.

If you require provisional 2022 data prior to its publication in July and contributory mentions, we can create a bespoke dataset. User requested data sets are subject to disclosure control, legal frameworks, resources and agreement to costs under the ONS Charging policy.

If you would like to discuss this further, or to obtain a quote for this work please contact the Health Analysis and Pandemic Insight (HAPI) Customer Service team at  Health.Data@ons.gov.uk