Other specified/unspecified hearing loss

sensorineural hearing loss: Hearing loss in which the root cause lies in the inner ear or sensory organ (cochlea and associated structures) or the vestibulocochlear nerve (cranial nerve VIII).

Endpoint definition

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

Hospital Discharge: ICD-10 H91.8, H91.9
Hospital discharge: ICD-9 389[8-9]
Hospital discharge: ICD-8 389
Cause of death: ICD-10 H91.8, H91.9
Cause of death: ICD-9 389[8-9]
Cause of death: ICD-8 389

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 1231 609 622
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.47 0.41 0.55
Mean age at first event (years) 57.91 55.61 60.15

Mortality

Follow-up Absolute risk HR [95% CI] p N
1998–2019 0.02 1.35 [0.61, 2.97] 4.5e-1 162
15 years 0.01 1.88 [1.03, 3.42] 3.9e-2 149
5 years 0.00 3.60 [2.38, 5.47] 1.6e-9 91
1 year - - - -

Correlations

Index endpoint: H8_HL_NAS – Other specified/unspecified hearing loss
GWS hits: 0

Survival analyses between endpoints

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before Other specified/unspecified hearing loss
after Other specified/unspecified hearing loss

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Drugs most likely to be purchased after Other specified/unspecified hearing loss