Specific development disorders of scholastic skills
Description
dyslexia: A learning disorder characterized by an impairment in processing written words. Reading difficulties can include distortions, omissions or substitutions of characters. Oral and silent reading difficulties can include faulty and slow comprehension.
Data source
| FinnGen phenocode | F5_SCHOLA |
| Hospital Discharge registry | ICD-10: F81, ICD-8: 3061 |
| Cause of Death registry | ICD-10: F81, ICD-8: 3061 |
| Level in the ICD-hierarchy | 3 |
| First defined in version | DF2 |
Key figures
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Number of individuals | 268 | 123 | 145 |
| Unadjusted prevalence (%) | 0.2 | 0.16 | 0.25 |
| Mean age at first event (years) | 18.39 | 21.03 | 16.15 |
| Median number of events / individual | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Clinical metrics
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Recurrence within 6 months (%) | 29.48 | 29.27 | 29.66 |
| Case fatality at 5-years (%) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |