Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (attempt to specificity)
Description
idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a nonneoplastic pulmonary disease that is characterized by the formation of scar tissue within the lungs in the absence of any known cause.
Data source
| FinnGen phenocode | IPF |
| Hospital Discharge registry | ICD-10: J841 |
| Cause of Death registry | ICD-10: J841 |
| First defined in version | DF2 |
Key figures
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Number of individuals | 495 | 218 | 277 |
| Unadjusted prevalence (%) | 0.37 | 0.29 | 0.48 |
| Mean age at first event (years) | 68.77 | 67.7 | 69.61 |
| Median number of events / individual | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Clinical metrics
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Recurrence within 6 months (%) | 57.37 | 55.96 | 58.48 |
| Case fatality at 5-years (%) | 28.89 | 22.94 | 33.57 |