Circumscribed brain atrophy
Description
Pick disease: A rare neurodegenerative disorder leading to dementia. It is characterized by frontotemporal lobar degeneration with accumulation of tau proteins which form Pick bodies.
Data source
| FinnGen phenocode | G6_ATROPHCIRCUM |
| Hospital Discharge registry | ICD-10: G310, ICD-8: 34791 |
| Cause of Death registry | ICD-10: G310 |
| Level in the ICD-hierarchy | 3 |
| First defined in version | DF2 |
Key figures
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Number of individuals | 153 | 74 | 79 |
| Unadjusted prevalence (%) | 0.12 | 0.1 | 0.14 |
| Mean age at first event (years) | 60.58 | 62.85 | 58.45 |
| Median number of events / individual | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Clinical metrics
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Recurrence within 6 months (%) | 37.25 | 29.73 | 44.3 |
| Case fatality at 5-years (%) | 25.49 | 22.97 | 27.85 |