Other/unspecified disorders of vestibular function
Description
vestibular disease: Pathological processes of the vestibular labyrinth which contains part of the balancing apparatus. Patients with vestibular diseases show instability and are at risk of frequent falls. [database_cross_reference: MESH:D015837]
Data source
| FinnGen phenocode | H8_VESTIFUNCNAS |
| Hospital Discharge registry | ICD-10: H819/H818 |
| Cause of Death registry | ICD-10: H819/H818 |
| Level in the ICD-hierarchy | 4 |
| First defined in version | DF2 |
Key figures
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Number of individuals | 260 | 162 | 98 |
| Unadjusted prevalence (%) | 0.2 | 0.22 | 0.17 |
| Mean age at first event (years) | 59.9 | 61.17 | 57.8 |
| Median number of events / individual | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Clinical metrics
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Recurrence within 6 months (%) | 6.54 | 6.79 | 6.12 |
| Case fatality at 5-years (%) | 4.23 | 4.32 | 4.08 |