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answer text: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated April 2009:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent questions asking:""(1) How many death certificates mentioning thrombosis have been issued in each of the last five years. (271404)""(2) How many death certificates mentioning arteriosclerosis have been issued in each of the last five years. (271405)""(3) How many death certificates mentioning gout have been issued in each of the last five years. (271406)""(4) How many death certificates mentioning prostate cancer have been issued in each of the last five years. (271407)""(5) How many death certificates mentioning osteoarthritis have been issued in each of the last five years. (271408)""(6) How many death certificates mentioning sleep apnoea have been issued in each of the last five years. (271409)""(7) How many death certificates mentioning (a) Type 1 diabetes and (b) Type 2 diabetes have been issued in each of the last five years. (271410)""(8) How many death certificates mentioning high blood pressure have been issued in each of the last five years. (271411)""Internationally accepted guidance from the World Health Organisation requires only those conditions that contributed directly to death to be recorded on the death certificate. Medical practitioners and coroners are not supposed to record all of the diseases or conditions present at or before death. Whether a condition contributed is a matter for their clinical judgement.""The table attached provides the number of deaths where the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes recorded indicate whether any of the following conditions were mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, either as the underlying cause or as a contributory factor, in England and Wales, for 2003 to 2007 (the latest year available).""(1) Thrombosis""(a) Myocardial infarction …
answer given date: 2009-05-05+01:00
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