Sensorineural hearing loss

Description

sensorineural hearing loss: Hearing loss in which the root cause lies in the inner ear or sensory organ (cochlea and associated structures) or the vestibulocochlear nerve (cranial nerve VIII).

Data source
FinnGen phenocode H8_HL_SEN_NAS
Hospital Discharge registry ICD-10: H904/H905/H903
Cause of Death registry ICD-10: H905/H904/H903
Level in the ICD-hierarchy 4
First defined in version DF2
Ontology
DOID 10003
GWAS catalog 1001176
MESH D006319
SNOMED CT 60700002

Key figures

Sex All Female Male
Number of individuals 12250 6109 6141
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 7.03 6.16 8.17
Mean age at first event (years) 62.92 62.03 63.8
Case fatality at 5-years (%) 4.52 3.72 5.32

Longitudinal metrics

Sex All Female Male
Median nb. of events per indiv. 2 2 2
Recurrence at 6 months (%) 43.39 43.11 43.66

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