Disorders of conjunctiva
Description
pinguecula: A yellowish thickened lesion on the conjunctiva near the cornea representing a benign degenerative change in the conjunctiva caused by the leakage and deposition of certain blood proteins through the permeable capillaries near the limbus.
Data source
| FinnGen phenocode | H7_CONJUNCTIVA |
| Hospital Discharge registry | ICD-10: H11/H10 |
| Cause of Death registry | ICD-10: H11/H10 |
| Include | H7_CONJUNCTIVITIS, H7_OTHERCONJ |
| Level in the ICD-hierarchy | 2 |
| First defined in version | DF2 |
Key figures
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Number of individuals | 19479 | 13758 | 5721 |
| Unadjusted prevalence (%) | 14.69 | 18.31 | 9.96 |
| Mean age at first event (years) | 43.43 | 43.7 | 42.8 |
| Median number of events / individual | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Clinical metrics
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Recurrence within 6 months (%) | 21.59 | 23.67 | 16.59 |
| Case fatality at 5-years (%) | 1.04 | 0.78 | 1.64 |