Death may be subclassified as: Cardiovascular death, Noncardiovascular death or Undetermined death.
Cardiovascular death may include death caused by acute MI, death caused by sudden cardiac death, including unwitnessed, death resulting from heart failure, death caused by stroke, death caused by cardiovascular procedures, death resulting from cardiovascular hemorrhage, death resulting from other cardiovascular cause.
Noncardiovascular death may include death from malignancy, death resulting from pulmonary causes, death caused by infection (including sepsis), death resulting from gastrointestinal causes, death resulting from accident/trauma, death caused by other noncardiovascular organ failure, death resulting from other.
Undetermined cause of death is defined as a death not attributable to any other category because of the absence of any relevant source documents.