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2007 ICD-9-CM Volume 1 Diagnosis Codes Home > Endocrine, Nutritional And Metabolic Diseases, And Immunity Disorders 240-279 > Nutritional Deficiencies 260-269 > Other Nutritional Deficiencies 269.* >

2007 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis 269.9

Unspecified nutritional deficiency

 On October 1, 2008 the 2009 ICD-9-CM codes came into effect. Therefore, this code may be out of date.

The 2009 version of ICD-9-CM 269.9 can be accessed here.

  • A disorder caused by a lack of proper nutrition or an inability to absorb nutrients from food.
  • An imbalanced nutritional status resulted from insufficient intake of nutrients to meet normal physiological requirement.
  • Inadequate nutrition resulting from poor diet, malabsorption, or abnormal nutrient distribution. --2004
  • 269.9 is a specific code that can be used to specify a diagnosis
  • 269.9 contains 15 index entries
  • View the ICD-9-CM Volume 1 269.* hierarchy

Index entries containing 269.9:

Debility (general) (infantile) (postinfectional) 799.3
  • with nutritional difficulty 269.9
Deficiency, deficient
  • diet 269.9
  • disease NEC 269.9
  • nutrition, nutritional 269.9
Dietary
  • inadequacy or deficiency 269.9
Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
  • deficiency 269.9
  • nutritional 269.9
    • maternal, affecting fetus or newborn 760.4
Disturbance - see also Disease
  • nutritional 269.9
Dropsy, dropsical (see also Edema) 782.3
  • nutritional 269.9
Error
  • in diet 269.9
Inadequate, inadequacy
  • dietary 269.9
Insufficiency, insufficient
  • dietary 269.9
Nutrition, deficient or insufficient (particular kind of food) 269.9Undernourishment 269.9
Undernutrition 269.9