Lactose intolerance, other/unspecified

lactose intolerance: Inability to fully digest and absorb lactose due to limited or no lactase activity in the small intestine. Congenital intolerance is inherited following an autosomal recessive pattern but is rare. It is more often due to a gradual decline of lactase production in adulthood following the ingestion of fewer lactose-containing foods or secondary to an intestinal mucosal brush-border injury. Prevalence is highest among Asians, Native Americans and Africans. Clinical signs include abdominal cramping, bloating, flatulence and diarrhea following the dietary intake of lactose.

Endpoint definition

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

Hospital Discharge: ICD-10 E73.8, E73.9
Hospital discharge: ICD-9 2713A
Cause of death: ICD-10 E73.8, E73.9
Cause of death: ICD-9 2713A

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 4
First used in FinnGen datafreeze DF2

Summary Statistics

Key figures

All Female Male
Number of individuals 471 328 143
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.18 0.22 0.13
Mean age at first event (years) 38.02 37.88 38.33

Mortality

Follow-up Absolute risk HR [95% CI] p N
1998–2019 0.03 2.17 [0.96, 4.91] 6.4e-2 39
15 years 0.02 3.08 [1.59, 5.94] 8.1e-4 35
5 years 0.00 3.82 [2.05, 7.11] 2.5e-5 13
1 year - - - -

Correlations

Index endpoint: E4_LACTONAS – Lactose intolerance, other/unspecified
GWS hits: 2

Survival analyses between endpoints

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Drugs most likely to be purchased after Lactose intolerance, other/unspecified