NCHS 39 Leading Causes of Death
In order to provide a consistent ranking standard the NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics) prepared a list of 113 selected causes of death. The NCHS 39 causes of death are taken from the list of 113. For more information about the NCHS rankings see ICD-10 Cause-of-Death Lists for Tabulating Mortality Statistics, October 2002, on the NCHS website.
Updated ICD-10 codes: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr70/nvsr70-09-508.pdf, page 3.
Code List
(last updated October 2021)
The IBIS system uses these selected causes of death in the Mortality Query Module. The new ICD codes for terrorism are bolded and the ICD-10 codes are preceded with '*'.
| Cause of Death | ICD-10 Codes | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tuberculosis | A16-A19 |
| 2 | Syphilis | A50-A53 |
| 3 | Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease | B20-B24 |
| Malignant neoplasms | C00-C97 | |
| 4 | Malignant neoplasm of stomach | C16 |
| 5 | Malignant neoplasms of colon, rectum and anus | C18-C21 |
| 6 | Malignant neoplasm of pancreas | C25 |
| 7 | Malignant neoplasms of trachea, bronchus and lung | C33-C34 |
| 8 | Malignant neoplasm of breast | C50 |
| 9 | Malignant neoplasms of cervix uteri, corpus uteri and ovary | C53-C56 |
| 10 | Malignant neoplasm of prostate | C61 |
| 11 | Malignant neoplasms of urinary tract | C64-C68 |
| 12 | Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma | C82-C85 |
| 13 | Leukemia | C91-C95 |
| 14 | Other malignant neoplasms | C00-C15,C17,C22-C24,C26-C32,C37-C49,C51-C52,C57-C60,C62-C63,C69-C81,C88,C90,C96-C97 |
| 15 | Diabetes mellitus | E10-E14 |
| 16 | Alzheimer's disease | G30 |
| Major cardiovascular diseases | I00-I78 | |
| Diseases of heart | I00-I09,I11,I13,I20-I51 | |
| 17 | Hypertensive heart disease with or without renal disease | I11,I13 |
| 18 | Ischemic heart diseases | I20-I25 |
| 19 | Other diseases of heart | I00-I09,I26-I51 |
| 20 | Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease | I10,I12 |
| 21 | Cerebrovascular diseases | I60-I69 |
| 22 | Atherosclerosis | I70 |
| 23 | Other diseases of circulatory system | I71-I78 |
| 24 | Influenza and pneumonia | J09-J18 |
| 25 | Chronic lower respiratory diseases | J40-J47 |
| 26 | Peptic ulcer | K25-K28 |
| 27 | Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis | K70,K73-K74 |
| 28 | Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis | N00-N07,N17-N19,N25-N27 |
| 29 | Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium | O00-O99 |
| 30 | Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period | P00-P96 |
| 31 | Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities | Q00-Q99 |
| 32 | Sudden infant death syndrome | R95 |
| 33 | Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified | R00-R94,R96-R99 |
| (excluding Sudden infant death syndrome) | R00-R94,R96-R99 | |
| 34 | All other diseases (residual, non-injury) | A00-A09,A20-A49,A54-B19,B25-B99,D00-E07,E15-G25,G31-H93,I80-J06,J20-J39,J60-K22,K29-K66,K71-K72,K75-M99,N10-N15,N20-N23,N28-N98,U04 |
| # | Accidents (unintentional injuries) | V01-X59, Y85-Y86 |
| 35 | Motor vehicle accidents | V02-V04,V09.0,V09.2,V12-V14,V19.0-V19.2,V19.4-V19.6,V20-V79,V80.3-V80.5,V81.0-V81.1,V82.0-V82.1,V83-V86,V87.0-V87.8,V88.0-V88.8,V89.0,V89.2 |
| 36 | All other and unspecified accidents and adverse effects | V01,V05-V06,V09.1,V09.3-V09.9,V10-V11,V15-V18,V19.3,V19.8-V19.9,V80.0-V80.2,V80.6-V80.9,V81.2-V81.9,V82.2-V82.9,V87.9,V88.9,V89.1,V89.3,V89.9,V90-X59,Y40-Y86,Y88 |
| 37 | Intentional self-harm (suicide) | *U03,X60-X84,Y87.0 |
| 38 | Assault (homicide) | *U01-*U02,X85-Y09,Y87.1 |
| 39 | All other external causes | Y10-Y36,Y87.2,Y89 |