Urticaria

L12_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

356077 individuals

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Apply sex-specific rule None

356077

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Check conditions None

356077

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Filter registries None

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Check pre-conditions, main-only, mode, ICD version None

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Check minimum number of events None

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L12_URTICARIA

Extra metadata

Level in the ICD hierarchy 3
First used in FinnGen datafreeze DF2

Summary Statistics

Key figures

All Female Male
Number of individuals 9386 6697 2689
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 2.64 3.38 1.71
Mean age at first event (years) 40.97 40.53 42.06

Mortality

Follow-up Absolute risk HR [95% CI] p N
1998–2019 0.03 1.73 [1.33, 2.26] 5.5e-5 444
15 years 0.01 1.09 [0.83, 1.42] 5.5e-1 183
5 years 0.00 2.21 [1.67, 2.92] 2.4e-8 113
1 year 0.00 4.34 [2.98, 6.32] 1.8e-14 40

Age distribution of first events

Year distribution of first events

Cumulative Incidence

Correlations

Index endpoint: L12_URTICARIA – Urticaria
GWS hits: 5

Survival analyses between endpoints

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before Urticaria
after Urticaria

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