Appendix D. ICD-9 Codes for Cause-Specific Healthy People 2010 Mortality Objectives 
Objective Number	Cause of Death**	ICD-9 Identifying Codes	
 3-1	Cancer (all sites)	140-208	
 3-2	Lung cancer	162	
 3-3	Female breast cancer 	174	
 3-4	Cervical cancer	180	
 3-5	Colorectal cancer 	153-154	
 3-6	Oropharyngeal cancer 	140-149	
 3-7	Prostate cancer	185	
 3-8	Malignant melanoma 	172	
 4-2	Cardiovascular mortality in ESRD patients	Underlying cause: 390-448
Contributing cause: 585	
 5-5†	Diabetes-related deaths	250	
 5-6†	Diabetes-related deaths among known persons with diabetes	250	
 5-7†	Cardiovascular deaths among persons with diabetes	Underlying cause:  390-448
Contributing cause:  250	
10-4	Food allergies	Developmental	
12-1	Coronary heart disease	402, 410-414, 429.2	
12-7	Stroke	430-438	
13-14	HIV infection	*042-*044	
15-3	Firearm-related deaths	E922, E955.0-E955.4, E965.0-E965.4, E970, E985.0- E985.4	
15-8	Poisoning	E850-E869, E950-E952, E962, E972, E980-E982 	
15-9	Suffocation	E911-E913, E953, E963, E983	
15-13	Unintentional injuries	E800-E869, E880-E929	
15-15	Motor vehicle crashes	E810-E819	
15-16	Pedestrian deaths	E810-E819‡	
15-25	Residential fires	E890-E899	
15-27	Falls	E880-E886, E888	
15-29	Drownings	E830, E832, E910	
15-32	Homicides	E960-E969	
16-1f	Birth defects	740-759	
16-1g	Congenital heart and vascular defects	745-747	
16-1h	Sudden infant death syndrome	798.0	
16-4	Maternal deaths 	630-676	
18-1	Suicide	E950-E959	

20-4†	Pneumoconiosis	500-505	
24-1	Asthma	493	
24-10	Chronic obstructive pulmonary 
diseases 	490-496	
26-1	Motor-vehicle crash deaths:   
a.  Alcohol-related   
c.  Drug-related	E810-E819‡	
26-2	Cirrhosis	571	
26-3	Drug-induced deaths	292, 304, 305.2-305.9, E850-E858, E950.0-E950.5, E962.0, E980.0-E980.5	

*The “*” used in ICD-9 *042-*044 indicates that the codes were added after the classification was adopted.
**Unless otherwise specified, Healthy People 2010 uses underlying cause-of-death data.
†Healthy People 2010 uses multiple-cause-of-death data.
‡Includes only those deaths assigned to E810-E819 that were associated with alcohol-related or drug-related crashes.

NOTE:  See Part B: Operational Definitions for more information.