Polymyalgia rheumatica

Description

polymyalgia rheumatica: Polymyalgia rheumatica is a common inflammatory condition that often affects people over the age of 50 years. Characteristic symptoms are shoulder and hip girdle pain and prolonged morning stiffness. Markers of inflammation are often elevated.

Data source
FinnGen phenocode M13_POLYMYALGIA
Hospital Discharge registry ICD-10: M353, ICD-9: 725, ICD-8: 4463
Cause of Death registry ICD-10: M353, ICD-9: 725, ICD-8: 4463
Level in the ICD-hierarchy 4
First defined in version DF2
Ontology
DOID 853
GWAS catalog 0008518
MESH D011111
SNOMED CT 65323003

Key figures

Sex All Female Male
Number of individuals 832 553 279
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.63 0.74 0.49
Mean age at first event (years) 68.76 69.23 67.83
Median number of events / individual 2 2 2

Clinical metrics

Sex All Female Male
Recurrence within 6 months (%) 53.61 55.52 49.82
Case fatality at 5-years (%) 10.46 9.22 12.9

Associations