Notes on the data: Premature mortality by selected cause - 0 to 74 years

Deaths from ischaemic heart disease, persons aged 0 to 74 years, 2017 to 2021

Policy context: Ischaemic heart disease (also known as coronary heart disease) includes angina, blocked arteries (heart) and heart attacks. In 2022, ischaemic heart disease was the leading underlying cause of death in Australia (9.8% of registered deaths at all ages, 11.3% of all male deaths and 8.1% of all female deaths)[1]. Ischaemic heart disease has been the leading cause of death in Australia since 2000; and remains the leading cause of death amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, accounting for 11.5% of all Indigenous deaths [2].

For 2017 to 2021, just over one quarter (27.9%) of all deaths from ischaemic heart disease were premature, although with two and a half (2.5 times) the proportion for males (37%) than females (14.48%) – these and other details are available here

Reference

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). 3303.0 Causes of Death, Australia, 2022. Available from:https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/causes-death-australia/2022#overview-of-leading-causes-of-death; last accessed 4 December 2023;
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Cause of death, Australia, 2022. Available from: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/causes-death-australia/latest-release#leading-causes-of-death-in-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-people; last accessed 4 December 2023.

Notes: International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes: I20-25

For detailed data files released since 2007, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has applied a staged approach to the coding of cause of death which affects the number of records available for release at any date. In general, the latest year’s data are designated preliminary, the second latest as revised and the data for the remaining years as final. For further information about the ABS revisions process see the following and related sites: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/3303.0Explanatory+Notes12012.

Data published here are from the following releases: 2017, final; 2018, revised; and 2019, 2020, preliminary.

Geography: Data available by Population Health Area, Local Government Area, Primary Health Network, Quintile of socioeconomic disadvantage of area and Quintiles within PHNs, and Remoteness Area

Numerator: Deaths from ischaemic heart disease at ages 0 to 74 years

Denominator: Population aged 0 to 74 years

Detail of analysis: Average annual indirectly age-standardised rate per 100,000 population (aged 0 to 74 years); and/or indirectly age-standardised ratio, based on the Australian standard.

Source: Data compiled by PHIDU from deaths data based on the 2017 to 2021 Cause of Death Unit Record Files supplied by the Australian Coordinating Registry and the Victorian Department of Justice, on behalf of the Registries of Births, Deaths and Marriages and the National Coronial Information System. The population is the average of the ABS Estimated Resident Population (ERP) for Australia, 30 June 2017 to 30 June 2021.