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NCHS 71 Rankable Causes of Infant Death

In order to provide a consistent grouping and ranking standard, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) prepared a List of 130 Selected Causes of Infant Death. Seventy-one causes on that list were designated as eligible to be ranked as leading causes of infant death. For more information about the NCHS rankings see ICD-10 Cause-of-Death Lists for Tabulating Mortality Statistics on the NCHS website.

ICD-9 was used to code death causes from 1979 through 1998. ICD-9 codes and comparability ratios are included below for comparison to pre-1999 mortality data.

A full list of ICD codes is available at https://icd.who.int/browse10/2019/en.

	Cause of Death	ICD-9 Codes	ICD-10 Codes	Comparability Ratio	Standard Error	Note
1	Diarrhea and gastroenteritis of infectious origin	009	A09	0.00	0.00
2	Tuberculosis	010-018	A16-A19	**	**
3	Tetanus	037, 771.3	A33, A35	**	**
4	Diphtheria	032	A36	**	**
5	Whooping cough	033	A37	**	**
6	Meningococcal infection	036	A39	0.9615	0.0377
7	Septicemia	038	A40-A41	1.3802	0.0713
8	Congenital syphilis	090	A50	**	**
9	Gonococcal infection	098	A54	**	**
10	Acute poliomyelitis	045	A80	**	**	Polio
11	Varicella	052	B01	**	**	Chickenpox
12	Measles	055	B05	**	**
13	Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease	042-044	B20-B24	**	**	HIV/AIDS
14	Mumps	072	B26	**	**
15	Candidiasis	112	B37	**	**
16	Malaria	084	B50-B54	**	**
17	Pneumocyctosis	136.3	B59	**	**
18	Malignant neoplasms	140-239	C00-C97	1.0139	0.0420	Cancer
19	In situ neoplasms, benign neoplasms and neoplasms of uncertain or unknown behavior	210-239	D00-D48	0.9615	0.1131
20	Diseases of the blood and blood-forming orgnas and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism	135, 279-289	D50-D89	0.7000	0.0803
21	Short stature, not elsewhere classified	259.4	E34.3	**	**
22	Nutritional deficiencies	260-269	E40-E64	**	**
23	Cystic fibrosis	277.0	E84	**	**
24	Volume depletion, diorders of fluid, electrolyte and acid-base balance	276	E86-E87	0.7547	0.0852
25	Meningitis	320-322	G00, G03	1.0000	0.0404
26	Infantile spinal muscular atrophy, type I	335.0	G12.0	1.0000	0.0521	Werdnig-Hoffman
27	Infantile cerebral palsy	343	G80	**	**
28	Anoxic brain damage, not elsewhere classified	348.1	G93.1	0.9667	0.1269
29	Diseases of the ear and mastoid process	380-389	H60-H93	**	**
30	Diseases of the circulatory system	390-434, 436-459	I00-I99	0.7138	0.0244
31	Acute upper respiratory infections	034.0, 460-465	J00-J06	**	**
32	Influenza and pneumonia	480-487	J09-J18	0.7624	0.0261
33	Acute bronchitis and acute bronchiolitis	466	J20-J21	0.8049	0.0758
34	Bronchitis, chronic and unspecified	490-491	J40-J42	**	**
35	Asthma	493	J45-J46	**	**
36	Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids	507	J69	**	**
37	Gastritis, duodenitis, and noninfective enteritis and colitis	535, 555-558	K29, K50-K55	2.9149	0.3879
38	Hernia of abdominal cavity and intestinal obstruction without hernia	550-553, 560	K40-K46, K56	**	**
39	Renal failure and other disorders of kidney	584-589	N17-N19, N25, N27	1.0408	0.0658
40	Newborn affected by maternal hypertensive disorders	760.0	P00.0	1.0455	0.0465
41	Newborn affected by other maternal conditions which may be unrelated to present pregnancy	760.1-760.6, 760.8-760.9	P00.1-P00.9	**	**
42	Newborn affected by maternal complications of pregnancy	761	P01	1.0295	0.0138
43	Newborn affected by complications of placenta, cord and membranes	762	P02	1.0470	0.0128
44	Newborn affected by other complications of labor and delivery	763.0-763.4, 763.6-763.9	P03	1.8500	0.3262
45	Newborn affected by noxious influences transmitted via placenta or breast milk	760.7, 763.5	P04	**	**
46	Slow fetal growth and fetal malnutrition	764	P05	1.1333	0.1004
47	Disorders related to short gestation and low birth weight, not elsewhere classified	765	P07	1.1060	0.0064
48	Disorders related to long gestation and high birth weight	766	P08	**	**
49	Birth trauma	767	P10-P15	0.0442	0.0197
50	Intrauterine hypoxia and birth asphyxia	768	P20-P21	1.4477	0.0599
51	Respiratory distress of newborn	769	P22	1.0257	0.0131
52	Congenital pneumonia	770.0	P23	3.8000	0.9004
53	Neonatal aspiration syndromes	770.1	P24	1.3929	0.1115
54	Interstitial emphysema and related conditions originating in the perinatal period	770.2	P25	1.2066	0.0595
55	Pulmonary hemorrhage originating in the perinatal period	770.3	P26	1.4621	0.0751
56	Chronic respiratory disease originating in the perinatal period	770.7	P27	1.1355	0.0327
57	Atelectasis	770.4-770.5	P28.0-P28.1	2.0649	0.1144
58	Bacterial sepsis of newborn	771.8	P36	0.9144	0.0272
59	Omphalitis of newborn with or without mild hemorrhage	771.4	P38	**	**
60	Neonatal hemorrhage	772	P50-P52, P54	1.4369	0.0698
61	Hemorrhagic disease of newborn	776.0	P53	**	**
62	Hemolytic disease of newborn due to isoimmunization and perinatal jaundice	773-774	P55-P59	**	**
63	Hematological disorders	776.1-776.9	P60-P61	**	**
64	Syndrome of infant of a diabetic mother and neonatal diabetes mellitus	775.0-775.1	P70.0-P70.2	**	**
65	Necrotizing entercolitis of newborn	777.5	P77	1.2266	0.0456
66	Hydrops fetalis not due to hemolytic disease	778.0	P83.2	1.0000	0.0264
67	Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities	740-759	Q00-Q99	0.9064	0.0057	Birth defects/ Congenital anomalies
68	Sudden infant death syndrome	798.0	R95	1.0362	0.0040	SIDS
69	Unintentional injuries	E800-E869, E880-E929	V01-X59	1.0246	0.0107
70	Assault (homicide)	E960-E968	*U01, X85-Y09	0.9481	0.0179
71	Complications of medical and surgical care	E870-E879, E930-E949	Y40-Y84	**	**

The new ICD codes for terrorism are preceded with '*'. See Classification of Death and Injury Resulting from Terrorism on the CDC website.

** Figure does not meet NCHS standards for reliability or precision.

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NCHS 71 Rankable Causes of Infant Death