Polymyalgia rheumatica

polymyalgia rheumatica: Polymyalgia rheumatica is a common inflammatory condition that often affects people over the age of 50 years. Characteristic symptoms are shoulder and hip girdle pain and prolonged morning stiffness. Markers of inflammation are often elevated.

Endpoint definition

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

Hospital Discharge: ICD-10 M35.3
Hospital discharge: ICD-9 725
Hospital discharge: ICD-8 4463
Cause of death: ICD-10 M35.3
Cause of death: ICD-9 725
Cause of death: ICD-8 4463

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 M35
Name in latin Polymyalgia rheumatica

Summary Statistics

Key figures

All Female Male
Number of individuals 1906 1182 724
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.73 0.80 0.64
Mean age at first event (years) 68.57 68.21 69.15

Mortality

Follow-up Absolute risk HR [95% CI] p N
1998–2019 0.05 3.42 [2.59, 4.50] 2.8e-18 356
15 years - - - -
5 years - - - -
1 year - - - -

Correlations

Index endpoint: M13_POLYMYALGIA – Polymyalgia rheumatica
GWS hits: 2

Survival analyses between endpoints

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before Polymyalgia rheumatica
after Polymyalgia rheumatica

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Drugs most likely to be purchased after Polymyalgia rheumatica