Vitamin A deficiency

ascorbic acid deficiency: A condition due to a dietary deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), characterized by malaise, lethargy, and weakness. As the disease progresses, joints, muscles, and subcutaneous tissues may become the sites of hemorrhage. Ascorbic acid deficiency frequently develops into scurvy in young children fed unsupplemented cow's milk exclusively during their first year. It develops also commonly in chronic alcoholism. (Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p1177)

Endpoint definition

FinnGen phenotype data
diagram bullet diagram downward connector

Filter registries Inpat., Oupat., Death

Hospital Discharge: ICD-10 E50
Hospital discharge: ICD-9 264
Hospital discharge: ICD-8 260
Cause of death: ICD-10 E50
Cause of death: ICD-9 264
Cause of death: ICD-8 260

Check pre-conditions None

Include endpoints None

Check conditions None

Apply sex-specific rule None

diagram downward connector E4_VIT_A_DEF

Extra metadata

Level in the ICD hierarchy 4
First used in FinnGen datafreeze DF2
Parent code in ICD-10 E50-E64
Name in latin Deficientia vitamini A

Summary Statistics

Key figures

All Female Male
Number of individuals 76 54 22
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.03 0.04 0.02
Mean age at first event (years) 49.94 45.02 62.00

Mortality

Follow-up Absolute risk HR [95% CI] p N
1998–2019 - - - -
15 years - - - -
5 years - - - -
1 year - - - -

Correlations

Index endpoint: E4_VIT_A_DEF – Vitamin A deficiency
GWS hits:

Survival analyses between endpoints

Plot

before Vitamin A deficiency
after Vitamin A deficiency

loading spinner Loading survival analyses plot

Drugs most likely to be purchased after Vitamin A deficiency