Anorexia (incl.atypical)

Description

anorexia nervosa: A disorder most often seen in adolescent females characterized by a refusal to maintain a minimally normal body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight, a disturbance in body image, and, in postmenarcheal females, the development of amenorrhea.

Data source
FinnGen phenocode F5_ANOREX
Hospital Discharge registry ICD-10: F500/F501, ICD-9: 7830A/3071A, ICD-8: 784
Cause of Death registry ICD-10: F500/F501, ICD-9: 7830A/3071A, ICD-8: 784
Level in the ICD-hierarchy 3
First defined in version DF2
Ontology
DOID 8689
GWAS catalog 0004215
MESH D000856
SNOMED CT 56882008

Key figures

Sex All Female Male
Number of individuals 583 441 142
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.44 0.59 0.25
Mean age at first event (years) 23.98 23.38 25.86
Median number of events / individual 1 2 1

Clinical metrics

Sex All Female Male
Recurrence within 6 months (%) 34.65 44.22 4.93
Case fatality at 5-years (%) 0.69 0.68 0.7

Associations