Obesity
Description
obesity: A disorder involving an excessive amount of body fat.
Data source
| FinnGen phenocode | E4_OBESITY |
| Hospital Discharge registry | ICD-10: E66 |
| Include | E4_OBESITYCAL, E4_OBESITYDRUG, E4_OBESITYXTRMALV, E4_OBESITYNAS |
| Level in the ICD-hierarchy | C |
| First defined in version | DF2 |
Key figures
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Number of individuals | 4896 | 3089 | 1807 |
| Unadjusted prevalence (%) | 3.69 | 4.11 | 3.15 |
| Mean age at first event (years) | 48.9 | 47.16 | 51.88 |
| Median number of events / individual | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Clinical metrics
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Recurrence within 6 months (%) | 45.14 | 46.2 | 43.33 |
| Case fatality at 5-years (%) | 3.55 | 2.2 | 5.87 |