Other appendicitis

Description

appendicitis: Acute inflammation of the vermiform appendix.

Data source
FinnGen phenocode K11_APPENDOTH
Hospital Discharge registry ICD-10: K37/K36, ICD-9: 541/542, ICD-8: 541|542
Cause of Death registry ICD-10: K36/K37, ICD-9: 541/542, ICD-8: 541|542
Level in the ICD-hierarchy 3
First defined in version DF2
Ontology
DOID 8337
GWAS catalog 0007149
MESH D001064
SNOMED CT 74400008

Key figures

Sex All Female Male
Number of individuals 833 461 372
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.63 0.61 0.65
Mean age at first event (years) 30.2 29.58 30.96
Median number of events / individual 1 1 1

Clinical metrics

Sex All Female Male
Recurrence within 6 months (%) 2.04 2.82 1.08
Case fatality at 5-years (%) 0.72 0.43 1.08

Associations