Giant cell arteritis

temporal arteritis: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a large vessel vasculitis predominantly involving the arteries originating from the aortic arch and especially the extracranial branches of the carotid arteries.

Endpoint definition

Name M13_GIANTCELL
Long name Giant cell arteritis
Hospital Discharge registry ICD-10: M316/M315
Cause of Death registry ICD-10: M316/M315
Include M13_TEMPARTERIT
Level in the ICD-hierarchy 4
First defined in version DF2

Summary Statistics

Key figures

All Female Male
Number of individuals 459 296 163
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.21 0.24 0.17
Mean age at first event (years) 68.02 67.77 68.47
Case fatality at 5-years (%) 7.41 5.41 11.04

Longitudinal metrics

All Female Male
Median nb. of events per indiv. 2.0 2.0 3.0
Recurrence at 6 months (%) 56.43 56.08 57.06

Survival analyses between endpoints

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before Giant cell arteritis
after Giant cell arteritis

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Drugs most likely to be purchased after Giant cell arteritis