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Death: Nutrition

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 30 October 2007:"As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many deaths there were with a (a) primary and (b) secondary diagnosis of (i) malnutrition and (ii) nutritional anaemias in each year since 1997. (161719)""The latest year for which figures are available is 2005. The table below shows the number of deaths from 1997 to 2005 where malnutrition or nutritional anaemias were either the underlying cause of death, or were mentioned anywhere on the death certificate. The definition of malnutrition used includes deaths from 'effects of hunger'."

Number of deaths where malnutrition and effects of hunger, or nutritional anaemias,¹ were the underlying cause of death, or were mentioned on the death certificate, England and Wales, 1997 to 2005²
	Malnutrition and effects of hunger	Nutritional anaemias
	Underlying cause of death	Mentioned on the death certificate	Underlying cause of death	Mentioned on the death certificate
1997	56	238	92	638
1998	51	221	72	554
1999	46	271	84	517
2000	46	239	52	482
2001	57	258	66	411
2002	72	296	52	409
2003	73	286	64	430
2004	57	276	61	423
2005	66	276	64	420
¹ Cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) for the years 1997 to 2000, and Tenth Revision (ICD-IO). Codes selected were:
Malnutrition—ICD-9 260-263, ICD-IO E40-E46
Effects of hunger—ICD-9 N994.2, T73.0
Nutritional anaemias—ICD-9 280-281, ICD-IO D50-D53
² Figures are for deaths occurring in each calendar year.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

161719; 465 c1182W

Session

2006-07

Subjects

Death Malnutrition

Link

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