FOI Ref: FOI/2022/3867
You asked
Please supply myocarditis deaths for England and Wales or UK from and including January 2016 to December 2021 listed by month for each year and then also by age.
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. National Records Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for statistics pertaining to Scotland and Northern Ireland. They can be contacted at foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk 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 2021 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 subgroups 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 have not conducted analysis for deaths that were due to myocarditis, by month and age. However, we can produce this for you as a bespoke request via our bespoke services pathway. 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 can be made to: health.data@ons.gov.uk.