Hyperhidrosis

Description

hypohidrosis: diminished sweating in response to appropriate stimuli. While hyperhidrosis is a socially troubling but benign condition, hypohidrosis can lead to hyperthermia, heat exhaustion, heat stroke and potentially death.[1] An extreme case of hypohydrosis in which there is a complete absence of sweating and the skin is dry is termedanhidrosis.

Data source
FinnGen phenocode R18_HYPERHIDROSIS
Hospital Discharge registry ICD-10: R61
Cause of Death registry ICD-10: R61
Level in the ICD-hierarchy 3
First defined in version DF4
Ontology
DOID 11155
GWAS catalog 1000712
MESH D006945
SNOMED CT 45004005

Key figures

Sex All Female Male
Number of individuals 298 210 88
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.17 0.21 0.12
Mean age at first event (years) 42.28 41.87 43.26
Case fatality at 5-years (%) 1.01 0.95 1.14

Longitudinal metrics

Sex All Female Male
Median nb. of events per indiv. 1 1 1
Recurrence at 6 months (%) 38.59 41.43 31.82

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