Other and unspecified urticaria

urticaria: A vascular reaction of the skin characterized by erythema and wheal formation due to localized increase of vascular permeability. The causative mechanism may be allergy, infection, or stress.

Endpoint definition

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

Hospital Discharge: ICD-10 L50.8, L50.9
Hospital discharge: ICD-9 708[8-9]
Hospital discharge: ICD-8 708
Cause of death: ICD-10 L50.8, L50.9
Cause of death: ICD-9 708[8-9]
Cause of death: ICD-8 708

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 3967 2809 1158
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 1.53 1.91 1.02
Mean age at first event (years) 39.69 39.87 39.27

Mortality

Follow-up Absolute risk HR [95% CI] p N
1998–2019 0.02 1.66 [1.15, 2.38] 6.3e-3 177
15 years 0.01 2.00 [1.39, 2.87] 1.9e-4 139
5 years 0.00 3.52 [2.44, 5.07] 1.6e-11 58
1 year 0.00 4.27 [2.34, 7.81] 2.4e-6 13

Correlations

Index endpoint: L12_URTICA_NAS – Other and unspecified urticaria
GWS hits: 1

Survival analyses between endpoints

Plot

before Other and unspecified urticaria
after Other and unspecified urticaria

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Drugs most likely to be purchased after Other and unspecified urticaria