Table 2.

Most Common Causes of Death Among Reports in Persons Aged 0–17 Years (n = 1244) in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, 1 July 1997–31 December 2013

ICD-10 Major Group	No.(%)
Symptoms, signs, and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified	703 (56.5)
Sudden infant death syndrome	544
Undetermined	146
Diseases of the respiratory system	98 (7.9)
Pneumonia	57
Injury, poisoning, and certain other consequences of external causes	96 (7.7)
Asphyxiation	74
Certain infections and parasitic diseases	80 (6.4)
Septicemia, sepsis	61
Diseases of the nervous system	73 (5.9)
Meningitis	18
Seizures	18
Diseases of the circulatory system	69 (5.5)
Other forms of heart disease	54
Congenital malformations, deformations, chromosomal abnormalities	39 (3.1)
Diseases of the digestive system	25 (2.0)
External causes of morbidity	16 (1.3)
Assault	11
Other causes of death	45 (3.6)

Abbreviation: ICD-10, International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision.