Temporal 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_TEMPARTERIT
Long name Temporal arteritis
Hospital Discharge registry ICD-10: M315
Cause of Death registry ICD-10: M315
Level in the ICD-hierarchy 5
First defined in version DF2
Latin name Arteritis gigantocellularis cum polymyalgia reumatica

Summary Statistics

Key figures

All Female Male
Number of individuals 421 273 148
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.19 0.22 0.16
Mean age at first event (years) 68.11 67.76 68.76
Case fatality at 5-years (%) 7.36 5.49 10.81

Longitudinal metrics

All Female Male
Median nb. of events per indiv. 2.0 2.0 3.0
Recurrence at 6 months (%) 56.06 54.95 58.11

Survival analyses between endpoints

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before Temporal arteritis
after Temporal arteritis

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Drugs most likely to be purchased after Temporal arteritis