Visual impairment including blindness (binocular or monocular)
Description
No definition available.
Data source
| FinnGen phenocode | H7_BLINDANDVISIMPAIRMENT |
| Hospital Discharge registry | ICD-10: H54 |
| Cause of Death registry | ICD-10: H54 |
| Include | H7_VISIMPBILATERAL, H7_SEVVISIMPBINOC, H7_MODVISIMPBINOC, H7_MILDVISIMPBINOC, H7_BLINDMONOCULAR, H7_SEVVISIMPMONOC, H7_MODVISIMPMONOC, H7_BLINDVISIMPNAS, H7_BLINDICD9, H7_OTHVISIMPICD9, H7_VISIMPNASICD9, H7_VISIMPBILATICD8, H7_VISIMPUNILATICD8, H7_VISUALDISTINOTH |
| Level in the ICD-hierarchy | 3 |
| First defined in version | DF2 |
Key figures
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Number of individuals | 526 | 314 | 212 |
| Unadjusted prevalence (%) | 0.4 | 0.42 | 0.37 |
| Mean age at first event (years) | 60.8 | 60.18 | 61.71 |
| Median number of events / individual | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Clinical metrics
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Recurrence within 6 months (%) | 32.32 | 32.48 | 32.08 |
| Case fatality at 5-years (%) | 12.55 | 12.1 | 13.21 |