Bell's palsy

Bell's palsy: Partial or complete paralysis of the facial muscles of one side of a person's face. It is caused by damage to the seventh cranial nerve. It is usually temporary but it may recur.

Endpoint definition

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

Hospital Discharge: ICD-10 G51.0
Hospital discharge: ICD-9 3510A
Hospital discharge: ICD-8 350
Cause of death: ICD-10 G51.0
Cause of death: ICD-9 3510A
Cause of death: ICD-8 350

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 G51
Name in latin Paresis nervi facialis

Summary Statistics

Key figures

All Female Male
Number of individuals 2104 1172 932
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.81 0.80 0.82
Mean age at first event (years) 51.07 49.26 53.34

Mortality

Follow-up Absolute risk HR [95% CI] p N
1998–2019 0.03 2.11 [1.24, 3.59] 5.7e-3 194
15 years 0.02 2.68 [1.70, 4.23] 2.2e-5 168
5 years 0.01 4.70 [3.22, 6.86] 9.6e-16 76
1 year 0.00 9.80 [6.16, 15.59] 5.2e-22 29

Correlations

Index endpoint: G6_BELLPA – Bell's palsy
GWS hits: 0

Survival analyses between endpoints

Plot

before Bell's palsy
after Bell's palsy

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