Hyperhidrosis

R18_HYPERHIDROSIS

hypohidrosis: diminished sweating in response to appropriate stimuli. While hyperhidrosis is a socially troubling but benign condition, hypohidrosis can lead to hyperthermia, heat exhaustion, heat stroke and potentially death.[1] An extreme case of hypohydrosis in which there is a complete absence of sweating and the skin is dry is termedanhidrosis.

Endpoint definition

FinnGen phenotype data

356077 individuals

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356077

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Check conditions None

356077

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Hospital Discharge: ICD-10 R61
Cause of death: ICD-10 R61

735

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R18_HYPERHIDROSIS

Extra metadata

Level in the ICD hierarchy 3
First used in FinnGen datafreeze DF4
Parent code in ICD-10 R[5-6]
Name in latin Hyperhidrosis

Summary Statistics

Key figures

All Female Male
Number of individuals 735 531 204
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.21 0.27 0.13
Mean age at first event (years) 43.40 42.52 45.68

Mortality

Follow-up Absolute risk HR [95% CI] p N
1998–2019 0.04 2.67 [0.92, 7.75] 7.0e-2 22
15 years 0.01 1.94 [0.65, 5.77] 2.4e-1 13
5 years - - - -
1 year - - - -

Age distribution of first events

Year distribution of first events

Cumulative Incidence

Correlations

Index endpoint: R18_HYPERHIDROSIS – Hyperhidrosis
GWS hits:

Survival analyses between endpoints

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before Hyperhidrosis
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