Acute appendicitis

appendicitis: Acute inflammation of the vermiform appendix.

Endpoint definition

FinnGen phenotype data
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Filter registries Inpat., Oupat., Death

Hospital Discharge: ICD-10 K35
Hospital discharge: ICD-9 540
Hospital discharge: ICD-8 540
Cause of death: ICD-10 K35
Cause of death: ICD-9 540
Cause of death: ICD-8 540

Check pre-conditions None

Include endpoints None

Check conditions None

Apply sex-specific rule None

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Extra metadata

Level in the ICD hierarchy 3
First used in FinnGen datafreeze DF2
Parent code in ICD-10 K35-K38
Name in latin Appendicitis acuta

Summary Statistics

Key figures

All Female Male
Number of individuals 18795 10133 8662
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 7.23 6.90 7.66
Mean age at first event (years) 34.16 32.68 35.88

Mortality

Follow-up Absolute risk HR [95% CI] p N
1998–2019 0.02 1.21 [1.03, 1.44] 2.3e-2 1016
15 years 0.01 1.31 [1.13, 1.53] 4.2e-4 646
5 years 0.00 1.76 [1.47, 2.12] 8.7e-10 187
1 year 0.00 2.64 [1.94, 3.61] 9.0e-10 50

Correlations

Index endpoint: K11_APPENDACUT – Acute appendicitis
GWS hits: 6

Survival analyses between endpoints

Plot

before Acute appendicitis
after Acute appendicitis

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Drugs most likely to be purchased after Acute appendicitis