: Category 100093

Category 100093
Health-related outcomes ⏵ Death register

Description

This category contains coded data on the cause of death (International Classification of Diseases [ICD10]), obtained through linkage to national death registries.

Please note that death data are now available via tables on the Data Portal, accessed via Field 40023, as well as the other summary fields in this category. Please see Resource 115559 for more information.

Researcher publications should use the following citation where data from NHS England has been used: "This work uses data provided by patients and collected by the NHS as part of their care and support."

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Notes

Please be aware that some participants have more than one death record.

A report entitled Death Summary Report that provides insight into the number and most causes of death within the UK Biobank cohort, as identified through linkage to national death registries, is available on the Understanding UK Biobank page under the heading 'Death and cancer registries reports.'

This report replaces the pdf entitled 'HealthOutcomesReport.pdf' that was previously held in Resource 134993.

8 Data-Fields

Field ID	Description
40023	Records in death dataset
40018	Death record format
40020	Death record origin
40000	Date of death
40007	Age at death
40001	Underlying (primary) cause of death: ICD10
40002	Contributory (secondary) causes of death: ICD10
40010	Description of cause of death	†

1 fields marked † are compound.

1 Parent Category

Category ID	Description	Items
100091	Health-related outcomes	1+2649

1 Resource

Preview	Name	Res ID
	Linkage from National Death Registries	115559

1 Application

Application ID	Title
6763	Phenome-wide association study and prediction of two-years mortality

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