FOI REF: FOI-2023-1135
You asked
I would like to know the sudden cardiac arrest statistics in young adults 18-35 for the years from 2013 to 2022 and any data you are able to give for 2023. The request is not for situations where sudden cardiac arrest resulted or contributed to death, but rather data on where a sudden cardiac has been recorded whether it led to a death or not.
We said
Thank you for your request.
We are responsible for the production of mortality statistics for England and Wales, this is driven by information collected from the death certificate at death registration.
Cardiac arrest incidents
We do not hold information on the number of reported cardiac arrests in England and Wales. We are only notified of deaths with the involvement of a cardiac arrest following a death registration. If the cardiac arrest was deemed to be the underlying cause of death or a contributing factor by a certifying doctor, then this would be published in our mortality figures. If an individual suffered a cardiac arrest and then recovered, ONS would not obtain that information. NHS Digital may be able to provide this information.
They can be contacted via email at enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk, and by telephone at 0300 303 5678.
Cardiac arrest mortality data
We do hold mortality data for deaths due to cardiac arrest for deaths that were registered between 2013-2021. This information is available as part of the explorable dataset on our NOMIS webservice. Deaths due to cardiac arrest are coded to I46 and can be extracted by five-year age groups. Please see the following instructions for using this service:
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). (I46)
Select format (Excel or CSV for example)
We have not yet finalised analysis of cardiac arrest mortality for 2022. However, we can produce this for you as a bespoke request split by sex and your bespoke age groups. 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). To discuss this further, please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.