Question reference: S6W-01240
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 6 July 2021
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Current status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 9 August 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many deaths have been attributed to sudden arrhythmic death syndrome in each year since 2010, broken down by (a) age group, (b) gender and (c) ethnicity.
Answer
Information from National Records of Scotland (NRS) is in the following table. Background information on how National Records for Scotland record deaths can be found at: Deaths - Background Information | National Records of Scotland (nrscotland.gov.uk)
Deaths from Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome 1 , by age, sex and ethnic group, 2010 to 2019
Ethnic Group | Year | 10 to 19 | 20 to 29 | 30 to 39 | 40 to 49 | 50 to 59 | Total | |||||
M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
Not provided | 2010 | |||||||||||
2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
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2014 | ||||||||||||
2015 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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2019 | ||||||||||||
White Scottish
| 2010 | |||||||||||
2011 | ||||||||||||
2012 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
2013 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
2014 | ||||||||||||
2015 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
2016 | ||||||||||||
2017 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
2018 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
2019 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Arab, Arab Scottish or Arab British | 2010 | |||||||||||
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2012 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
2013 | ||||||||||||
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2019 | ||||||||||||
Total | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 | |||||
1) Deaths identified as those where the words "sudden", "syndrome" and "arrhythmic", "arrhythmia" or "arrhythmogenic" appear in the cause of death text on the death certificate.