Metadata

Name Female infertility (female_infertility)
Category Genitourinary
Sex
Adult Yes
UUID 145d0383-2a91-44cd-8760-740066b520fb
Definition Diminished or absent ability of a female to achieve conception.

Ontologies

Disease Ontology (DOID) DOID_13589
GWAS Catalogue EFO_0008560
MeSH D007247
SNOMED-CT 6738008
FinnGen N14_FEMALEINFERT

Key Summary Statistics

Cases from any source

Total 3907
Female (%) 3907 (100%)
Male (%) 0 (0%)

Year first recorded

female_infertility year of first event

Cases linked in all UK Biobank sources

Cross-source concordance

Vertical bars correspond to number of cases per source/intersection; horizontal bars to left correspond to total number of cases per source.

Cross-sourced female_infertility cases

Incidence & prevalence

Sex and age-stratified incidence and prevalence of female_infertility

Baseline prevalence stratified by sex

Female 224.32 (214.36,234.29)
Male 0.0 (0.0,0.0)

Incidence stratified by sex

Female 0.31 (0.16,0.45)
Male 0.0 (0.0,0.0)

Incidence stratified by age

Ages 40-44 1.24 (0.54,1.94)
Ages 45-49 0.3 (0.01,0.6)
Ages 50-54 0.0 (0.0,0.0)
Ages 55-59 0.0 (0.0,0.0)
Ages 60-64 0.04 (-0.04,0.11)
Ages 65-69 0.0 (0.0,0.0)

Period prevalence

Methods

Comparison with general population

Sex-standardised prevalence from CALIBER study (Kuan et al. 2019)

CALIBER and UKB female_infertility prevalence comparison for multiple age groups

Population Ages 40-49 Ages 50-59 Ages 60-69
UK Biobank 215 (201,229) 107 (100,115) 58 (54,63)
CALIBER 575 (566,585) 305 (297,312) 134 (128,139)

Stratified by age and Townsend deprivation status

Deprivation status Ages 40-49 Ages 50-59 Ages 60-69
Least deprived 244(211,281) 127(110,147) 68(57,80)
Low 215(184,249) 109(93,127) 60(50,72)
Medium 222(192,256) 103(87,120) 57(47,68)
High 229(200,261) 109(93,127) 56(46,68)
Most deprived 174(150,200) 88(73,104) 49(39,60)

Stratified by age and country

Country Ages 40-49 Ages 50-59 Ages 60-69
England 201(187,216) 108(100,117) 61(55,66)
Scotland 282(240,329) 116(96,139) 67(53,83)
Wales 245(194,304) 82(60,108) 20(11,34)

Definition

UK Biobank field id Description Code Value
20002 Non-cancer illness code, self-reported 1403 female infertility
41202 Diagnoses - main ICD10 N97 Female infertility
41204 Diagnoses - secondary ICD10 N97 Female infertility
40001 Underlying (primary) cause of death: ICD10 N97 Female infertility
40002 Contributory (secondary) causes of death: ICD10 N97 Female infertility
42040 GP clinical event records K26y300 Infertility due to radiation
42040 GP clinical event records K26y400 Infertility in systemic disease
42040 GP clinical event records K5B0000 Primary anovulatory infertility
42040 GP clinical event records K5B0100 Secondary anovulatory infertility
42040 GP clinical event records K5B0.00 Female infertility of anovulatory origin
42040 GP clinical event records K5B0.11 Anovular cycle
42040 GP clinical event records K5B0z00 Female infertility of anovulatory origin NOS
42040 GP clinical event records K5B1000 Primary pituitary - hypothalamic infertility
42040 GP clinical event records K5B1100 Secondary pituitary - hypothalamic infertility
42040 GP clinical event records K5B1.00 Female infertility of pituitary - hypothalamic origin
42040 GP clinical event records K5B1z00 Female infertility of pituitary - hypothalamic cause NOS
42040 GP clinical event records K5B2000 Primary tubal infertility
42040 GP clinical event records K5B2100 Secondary tubal infertility
42040 GP clinical event records K5B2300 Blocked fallopian tube
42040 GP clinical event records K5B2.00 Female infertility of tubal origin
42040 GP clinical event records K5B2z00 Female infertility of tubal origin NOS
42040 GP clinical event records K5B3000 Primary uterine infertility
42040 GP clinical event records K5B3100 Secondary uterine infertility
42040 GP clinical event records K5B3.00 Female infertility of uterine origin
42040 GP clinical event records K5B3z00 Female infertility of uterine origin NOS
42040 GP clinical event records K5B4000 Primary cervical infertility
42040 GP clinical event records K5B4100 Secondary cervical infertility
42040 GP clinical event records K5B4.00 Female infertility of cervical origin
42040 GP clinical event records K5B5100 Secondary vaginal infertility
42040 GP clinical event records K5B5.00 Female infertility of vaginal origin
42040 GP clinical event records K5B6.00 Female infertility associated with male factors
42040 GP clinical event records K5B7.00 Female infertility due to diminished ovarian reserve
42040 GP clinical event records K5B..00 Infertility - female
42040 GP clinical event records K5By000 Primary infertility unspecified
42040 GP clinical event records K5By100 Secondary infertility unspecified
42040 GP clinical event records K5By.00 Other female infertility
42040 GP clinical event records K5Byz00 Other female infertility NOS
42040 GP clinical event records K5Byz11 Subfertility
42040 GP clinical event records K5Bz.00 Female infertility NOS
42040 GP clinical event records Kyu9G00 [X]Female infertility of other origin
42040 GP clinical event records XE0ey Other female infertility NOS
42040 GP clinical event records XE0ex Female infertility of anovulatory origin
42040 GP clinical event records XaZ6K Female infertility due to diminished ovarian reserve
42040 GP clinical event records X409B Female infertility associated with male factors
42040 GP clinical event records X4099 Blocked fallopian tube