FOI Ref: FOI/2022/4013
You asked
Please supply data on heart attacks and myocarditis for 2019, 2020 and 2021.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry
The mortality data published by ONS are derived from the formal process of death registration.
2019 and 2020 data
All 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 2020 is coded to version 2014 of the ICD10 framework.
The ICD-10 code for heart attack (myocardial infarction) is I21 to I23
- I21 - Acute myocardial infarction
- I22 - Subsequent myocardial infarction
- I23 - Complications following acute myocardial infarction
The ICD-10 code for myocarditis is I40 to I 41
I40 Acute myocarditis
- I40.0 - Infective myocarditis and Septic myocarditis
- I40.1 - Isolated myocarditis
- I40.8 - Other acute myocarditis
I41 Myocarditis in diseases classified elsewhere
Annual mortality data by cause from 2013-2020 is available as part of our explorable dataset on our NOMIS webservice.
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Select cause of death (ICD10 code search is available). I21, I22, I23, I40 and I41
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| Cause of death | 2019 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|
| A00-R99, U00-Y89 All causes, all ages | 530,841 | 607,922 |
| I21 Acute myocardial infarction | 19,386 | 19,440 |
| I22 Subsequent myocardial infarction | 0 | 0 |
| I23 Certain current complications following acute myocardial infarction | 0 | 0 |
| I40 Acute myocarditis | 49 | 48 |
| I41 Myocarditis in diseases classified elsewhere | 0 | 0 |
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.xls .csv2021 data
Deaths registered in England and Wales for 2021 will be published in July 2022, this is to allow the inclusion of late registrations, which are deaths that have been referred for Coroner investigation.
We can produce this as a bespoke request using provisional data, however we must caution this will be subject to change and may not match the published data in July 2022 due to the inclusion of late registrations. 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.