Other renal tubulo-interstitial diseases
Description
Balkan nephropathy: An interstitial nephritis endemic to the regions along the Danube river, in the modern countries of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria.
Data source
| FinnGen phenocode | N14_RENALTUBULOOTH |
| Hospital Discharge registry | ICD-10: N15, ICD-8: 5902|5909 |
| Cause of Death registry | ICD-10: N15, ICD-8: 5902|5909 |
| Level in the ICD-hierarchy | 3 |
| First defined in version | DF2 |
Key figures
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Number of individuals | 209 | 163 | 46 |
| Unadjusted prevalence (%) | 0.16 | 0.22 | 0.08 |
| Mean age at first event (years) | 29.46 | 25.49 | 43.52 |
| Median number of events / individual | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Clinical metrics
| Sex | All | Female | Male |
| Recurrence within 6 months (%) | 8.13 | 6.75 | 13.04 |
| Case fatality at 5-years (%) | 3.35 | 1.84 | 8.7 |