Pneumoconiosis due to other inorganic dusts

Description

berylliosis: Chronic beryllium disease (CBD) is a granulomatous, interstitial lung disease that occurs in individuals who develop beryllium sensitization (BeS), a cell-mediated immune response to environmental and occupational beryllium exposure. BeS precedes the lung disease that may present with chronic dry cough, fatigue, weight loss, chest pain, and increasing dyspnea.

Data source
FinnGen phenocode J10_INORGPNEUMOC
Hospital Discharge registry ICD-10: J63, ICD-9: 503, ICD-8: 51600
Cause of Death registry ICD-10: J63, ICD-9: 503, ICD-8: 51600
Level in the ICD-hierarchy 3
First defined in version DF2
Ontology
DOID 10322
GWAS catalog 0007168
MESH D001607
SNOMED CT 18121009

Key figures

Sex All Female Male
Number of individuals 27 14 13
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.02 0.02 0.02
Mean age at first event (years) 62.64 62.04 63.3
Median number of events / individual 1 1 1

Clinical metrics

Sex All Female Male
Recurrence within 6 months (%) 3.7 7.14 N/A
Case fatality at 5-years (%) 25.93 21.43 30.77

Associations