Allergic urticaria

allergic urticaria: commonly referred to as hives, is a kind of skin rash notable for pale red, raised, itchy bumps. Hives may cause a burning or stinging sensation. Histamine and other proinflammatory substances are released from mast cells in the skin and tissues in response to the binding of allergen-bound IgE antibodies to high-affinity cell surface receptors. Basophils and other inflammatory cells are also seen to release histamine and other mediators, and are thought to play an important role, especially in chronic urticarial diseases.

Endpoint definition

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

Hospital Discharge: ICD-10 L50.0
Hospital discharge: ICD-9 7080
Cause of death: ICD-10 L50.0
Cause of death: ICD-9 7080

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
Parent code in ICD-10 L50
Name in latin Urticaria allergica

Summary Statistics

Key figures

All Female Male
Number of individuals 1426 1017 409
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.55 0.69 0.36
Mean age at first event (years) 41.55 41.39 41.93

Mortality

Follow-up Absolute risk HR [95% CI] p N
1998–2019 0.04 2.75 [1.47, 5.13] 1.5e-3 77
15 years 0.02 2.54 [1.33, 4.83] 4.7e-3 59
5 years 0.01 4.91 [2.54, 9.50] 2.2e-6 27
1 year - - - -

Correlations

Index endpoint: L12_URTICA_ALLERG – Allergic urticaria
GWS hits: 0

Survival analyses between endpoints

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before Allergic urticaria
after Allergic urticaria

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Drugs most likely to be purchased after Allergic urticaria