ascorbic acid deficiency: A condition due to a dietary deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), characterized by malaise, lethargy, and weakness. As the disease progresses, joints, muscles, and subcutaneous tissues may become the sites of hemorrhage. Ascorbic acid deficiency frequently develops into scurvy in young children fed unsupplemented cow's milk exclusively during their first year. It develops also commonly in chronic alcoholism. (Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p1177)
Endpoint definition
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Endpoint definition steps |
FinnGen |
---|---|
Phenotype data |
520210 |
1. Apply sex-specific ruleNone |
520210 |
2. Check conditionsNone |
520210 |
3. Check pre-conditions, main-only, mode, registry filtersRegistry filters:
2 out of 7 registries used, show all original rules. |
168 |
4. Check minimum number of eventsNone |
168 |
5. Include endpointsNone |
168 |
6. Filter based on genotype QC (FinnGen only) |
168 |
Control definitions (FinnGen only)
- Control exclude
- E4_NUTRIDEF
Extra metadata
- Level in the ICD hierarchy
- 4
- First used in FinnGen datafreeze
- DF2
- Parent code in ICD-10
- E50-E64
- Name in latin
- Deficientia vitamini A
Similar endpoints
↥List of similar endpoints to Vitamin A deficiency based on the number of shared cases.
Similar with more cases:
- Vitamin deficiency
- Vitamin deficiency, wide
- Other nutritional deficiencies
- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
- Any event in hilmo or specialist outpatient
Similar with less cases:
None
Case counts by codes
↥Summary Statistics
↥-FinRegistry-
Key figures
All | Female | Male | |
---|---|---|---|
Number of individuals | |||
Whole population | 1746 | 1131 | 591 |
Only index persons | 1302 | 892 | 410 |
Unadjusted period prevalence (%) | |||
Whole population | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 |
Only index persons | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 |
Median age at first event (years) | |||
Whole population | 65.53 | 63.81 | 68.82 |
Only index persons | 58.80 | 56.29 | 64.25 |
-FinnGen-
Key figures
All | Female | Male | |
---|---|---|---|
Number of individuals | 168 | 111 | 57 |
Unadjusted period prevalence (%) | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 |
Median age at first event (years) | 52.04 | 43.46 | 68.75 |
-FinRegistry-
Age distribution of first events
-FinnGen-
Age distribution of first events
-FinRegistry-
Year distribution of first events
-FinnGen-
Year distribution of first events
-FinRegistry-
Cumulative Incidence Function
-FinnGen-
Cumulative Incidence Function
CodeWAS (R11)
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First, a cohort is built by matching controls to the endpoint cases using year of birth and sex. Then, a Fisher test is done for all the medical codes and drug codes between the cases and controls of this cohort. Codes are reported in the table below if they have −log10(p-value) ≥ 6.
Matched cohort
- Matched cases
- 150
- Matched controls
- 1498
LabWAS
↥Mortality – FinRegistry
↥Association
Association between endpoint E4_VIT_A_DEF and mortality.
Females
Parameter | HR [95% CI] | p-value |
---|---|---|
E4_VIT_A_DEF | 2.193 [1.78, 2.7] | < 0.001 |
Birth year | 0.994 [0.99, 1.0] | 0.182 |
During the follow-up period (1.1.1998 — 31.12.2019), 420 out of 942 females with E4_VIT_A_DEF died.
Males
Parameter | HR [95% CI] | p-value |
---|---|---|
E4_VIT_A_DEF | 2.936 [2.06, 4.18] | < 0.001 |
Birth year | 0.986 [0.98, 1.0] | 0.004 |
During the follow-up period (1.1.1998 — 31.12.2019), 282 out of 450 males with E4_VIT_A_DEF died.
Mortality risk
Mortality risk for people of age
years, who have E4_VIT_A_DEF.N-year risk | Females | Males |
---|---|---|
1 | 0.208% | 0.662% |
5 | 1.253% | 3.621% |
10 | 2.98% | 7.887% |
15 | 5.729% | 14.718% |
20 | 10.213% | 23.711% |
Relationships between endpoints
↥Index endpoint: E4_VIT_A_DEF – Vitamin A deficiency
GWS hits: 1