"Figure 11: Dementia and Alzheimer disease was the most common pre-existing health condition in deaths involving COVID-19 between March and June 2020","" "Number of deaths involving COVID-19 by common pre-existing condition, sex and age, England and Wales, occurring in March to June 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. Figures are provisional. 2. Figures include deaths of non-residents. 3. Based on the date a death occurred rather than when it was registered. 4. Including deaths registered up until 4 July 2020. 5. In this bulletin, we use the term “due to COVID-19” when referring only to deaths with an underlying cause of death as the coronavirus (COVID-19) and the term “involving COVID-19” when referring to deaths that had COVID-19 mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, whether as underlying cause or not. 6. Pre-existing conditions are grouped using the Office for National Statistics’s (ONS’s) leading causes of deaths list and the International Classification of Diseases, tenth edition (ICD-10) blocks of causes. 7. Deaths may be counted more than once here as someone may have more than one pre-existing condition." "Unit","Number of deaths" "","" "Condition","Males 0 to 69 years","Males 70 years and over","Females 0 to 69 years","Females 70 years and over" "Diseases of the urinary system","592","3437","328","2401" "Chronic lower respiratory diseases ","702","3536","586","2885" "Hypertensive diseases","1192","4018","462","3149" "Diabetes","1525","4606","712","2977" "Influenza and pneumonia ","1504","5043","784","3698" "Symptoms signs and ill-defined conditions ","167","5072","148","6644" "Dementia and Alzheimer disease ","189","6413","128","7110"