Sensorineural 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_SEN_NAS |
| Hospital Discharge registry | ICD-10: H905/H904/H903 |
| Cause of Death registry | ICD-10: H905/H904/H903 |
| Level in the ICD-hierarchy | 4 |
| First defined in version | DF2 |
Key figures
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Number of individuals | 9608 | 4795 | 4813 |
| Unadjusted prevalence (%) | 7.25 | 6.38 | 8.38 |
| Mean age at first event (years) | 63.03 | 62.24 | 63.81 |
| Median number of events / individual | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Clinical metrics
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Recurrence within 6 months (%) | 42.76 | 42.52 | 42.99 |
| Case fatality at 5-years (%) | 5.03 | 4.15 | 5.9 |