Temporal arteritis

temporal arteritis: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a large vessel vasculitis predominantly involving the arteries originating from the aortic arch and especially the extracranial branches of the carotid arteries.

Endpoint definition

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

Hospital Discharge: ICD-10 M31.5
Cause of death: ICD-10 M31.5

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 5
First used in FinnGen datafreeze DF2
Parent code in ICD-10 M31
Name in latin Arteritis gigantocellularis cum polymyalgia reumatica

Summary Statistics

Key figures

All Female Male
Number of individuals 534 342 192
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.21 0.23 0.17
Mean age at first event (years) 67.86 67.43 68.63

Mortality

Follow-up Absolute risk HR [95% CI] p N
1998–2019 0.05 3.70 [2.29, 5.98] 8.6e-8 77
15 years 0.02 3.58 [2.18, 5.87] 4.3e-7 74
5 years 0.00 4.73 [2.79, 8.04] 8.3e-9 44
1 year - - - -

Correlations

Index endpoint: M13_TEMPARTERIT – Temporal arteritis
GWS hits: 0

Survival analyses between endpoints

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before Temporal arteritis
after Temporal arteritis

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Drugs most likely to be purchased after Temporal arteritis