Diabetic retinopathy

diabetic retinopathy: A chronic, pathological complication associated with diabetes mellitus, where retinal damages are incurred due to microaneurysms in the vasculature of the retina, progressively leading to abnormal blood vessel growth, and swelling and leaking of fluid from blood vessels, resulting in vision loss or blindness.

Endpoint definition

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

Hospital discharge: ICD-9 3620
Cause of death: ICD-9 3620

Check pre-conditions 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 4524 2020 2504
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 1.74 1.37 2.21
Mean age at first event (years) 47.62 45.05 49.69

Mortality

Follow-up Absolute risk HR [95% CI] p N
1998–2019 0.07 5.36 [4.05, 7.10] 8.9e-32 840
15 years 0.04 5.91 [4.69, 7.44] 1.1e-51 730
5 years 0.01 6.92 [5.55, 8.64] 1.6e-65 290
1 year 0.00 6.26 [4.48, 8.75] 8.4e-27 52

Correlations

Index endpoint: H7_RETINOPATHYDIAB – Diabetic retinopathy
GWS hits: 13

Survival analyses between endpoints

Plot

before Diabetic retinopathy
after Diabetic retinopathy

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Drugs most likely to be purchased after Diabetic retinopathy