Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Description
obsessive-compulsive disorder: A disorder characterized by the presence of persistent and recurrent irrational thoughts (obsessions), resulting in marked anxiety and repetitive excessive behaviors (compulsions) as a way to try to decrease that anxiety.
Data source
| FinnGen phenocode | F5_OCD |
| Hospital Discharge registry | ICD-10: F42, ICD-8: 3003 |
| Cause of Death registry | ICD-10: F42, ICD-8: 3003 |
| Level in the ICD-hierarchy | 4 |
| First defined in version | DF2 |
Key figures
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Number of individuals | 583 | 333 | 250 |
| Unadjusted prevalence (%) | 0.44 | 0.44 | 0.44 |
| Mean age at first event (years) | 33.95 | 33.63 | 34.38 |
| Median number of events / individual | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Clinical metrics
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Recurrence within 6 months (%) | 50.6 | 54.95 | 44.8 |
| Case fatality at 5-years (%) | 1.03 | 0.9 | 1.2 |