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Sudden Cardiac Deaths

Answer

I have been asked to reply.The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.Letter from Len Cook to Mr. David Drew, dated 20 June 2005:"As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many cases of sudden cardiac deaths were reported in Gloucestershire in the last year for which figures are available; and how many were people were aged (a) under 18, (b) 19 to 35 and (c) 26 to 35 years. (4343)""It is not possible to provide reliable figures on the number of cardiac deaths which occurred suddenly, as certifiers are not required to indicate at death registration whether or not a death was sudden. Figures are therefore provided for all heart diseases, sudden cardiac death (so described), acute ischaemic heart disease and cardiac arrhythmias.¹""Figures are provided in the table below for 2004, the latest year for which data are currently available."

Number of deaths from (a) all heart diseases, (b) sudden cardiac death, so described, (c) acute ischaemic heart disease and (d) cardiac arrhythmias1 in persons, by age, for usual residents of Gloucestershire registered in 2004 Numbers of deaths
		Under 18	18–25	26–35	All ages
(a)	AH heart diseases	1	0	1	1,334
(b)	Sudden cardiac death, so described	0	0	0	2
(c)	Acute ischaemic heart disease	0	0	0	514
(d)	Cardiac arrhythmias	0	0	0	29
AII heart diseases ICD-10 120–15 Sudden cardiac death, so described ICD-10146.1 Acute ischaemic heart disease ICD-JO121 Cardiac arrhythmias ICD-10144–149.
(39) The cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Disease (ICD-10). Deaths were selected where the original underlying cause of death was one of the following codes:

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

4343; 435 c800-1W;435 c804-5W

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Death Heart diseases Young people Gloucestershire

Contains statistics

Yes