Alzheimer disease
Description
Alzheimer's disease: A progressive, neurodegenerative disease characterized by loss of function and death of nerve cells in several areas of the brain leading to loss of cognitive function such as memory and language.
Data source
| FinnGen phenocode | G6_ALZHEIMER |
| Hospital Discharge registry | ICD-10: G30 |
| Cause of Death registry | ICD-10: G30 |
| Level in the ICD-hierarchy | 3 |
| First defined in version | DF2 |
Ontology
| DOID | 10652 |
| GWAS catalog | 0000249 |
| MESH | D000544 |
| SNOMED CT | 142811000119104 |
Key figures
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Number of individuals | 2568 | 1512 | 1056 |
| Unadjusted prevalence (%) | 1.94 | 2.01 | 1.84 |
| Mean age at first event (years) | 78.69 | 79.26 | 77.87 |
| Median number of events / individual | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Clinical metrics
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Recurrence within 6 months (%) | 47.86 | 45.77 | 50.85 |
| Case fatality at 5-years (%) | 39.33 | 35.85 | 44.32 |