Diabetic retinopathy

H7_RETINOPATHYDIAB

diabetic retinopathy: A chronic, pathological complication associated with diabetes mellitus, where retinal damages are incurred due to microaneurysms in the vasculature of the retina, progressively leading to abnormal blood vessel growth, and swelling and leaking of fluid from blood vessels, resulting in vision loss or blindness.

Endpoint definition

FinnGen phenotype data

321302 individuals

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Apply sex-specific rule None

321302

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Check conditions None

321302

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Filter registries

Hospital discharge: ICD-9 3620
Hospital discharge: ICD-8 $!$
Cause of death: ICD-9 3620
Cause of death: ICD-8 $!$

5631

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Check pre-conditions, main-only, mode, ICD version

Look only at ICD versions H.D: 10, 8, 9 ; C.O.D: 10, 8, 9

5605

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Check minimum number of events None

5605

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H7_RETINOPATHYDIAB

Extra metadata

Level in the ICD hierarchy 4
First used in FinnGen datafreeze DF2

Summary Statistics

Key figures

All Female Male
Number of individuals 5443 2444 2999
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 1.76 1.41 2.22
Mean age at first event (years) 49.18 46.95 50.99

Mortality

Follow-up Absolute risk HR [95% CI] p N
1998–2019 0.05 3.92 [3.00, 5.12] 1.7e-23 977
15 years 0.02 2.62 [2.10, 3.28] 1.5e-17 511
5 years 0.00 4.08 [3.32, 5.00] 2.4e-41 281
1 year 0.00 4.53 [3.35, 6.11] 5.1e-23 61

Age distribution of first events

Year distribution of first events

Cumulative Incidence

Correlations

Index endpoint: H7_RETINOPATHYDIAB – Diabetic retinopathy
GWS hits: 13

Survival analyses between endpoints

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before Diabetic retinopathy
after Diabetic retinopathy

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Drugs most likely to be purchased after Diabetic retinopathy