Other specified/unspecified hearing loss
Description
sensorineural hearing loss: Hearing loss in which the root cause lies in the inner ear or sensory organ (cochlea and associated structures) or the vestibulocochlear nerve (cranial nerve VIII).
Data source
| FinnGen phenocode | H8_HL_NAS |
| Hospital Discharge registry | ICD-10: H919/H918, ICD-8: 389 |
| Cause of Death registry | ICD-10: H919/H918, ICD-8: 389 |
| Level in the ICD-hierarchy | 4 |
| First defined in version | DF2 |
Key figures
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Number of individuals | 603 | 313 | 290 |
| Unadjusted prevalence (%) | 0.45 | 0.42 | 0.51 |
| Mean age at first event (years) | 57.73 | 56.58 | 58.98 |
| Median number of events / individual | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Clinical metrics
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Recurrence within 6 months (%) | 23.55 | 22.04 | 25.17 |
| Case fatality at 5-years (%) | 6.8 | 5.43 | 8.28 |