Metadata

Name Sick sinus syndrome (sick_sinus)
Category Cardiovascular
Sex
Adult Yes
UUID 6674a0a2-0668-4543-aadb-b66d816f92ca
Definition A condition caused by dysfunctions related to the SINOATRIAL NODE including impulse generation (CARDIAC SINUS ARREST) and impulse conduction (SINOATRIAL EXIT BLOCK). It is characterized by persistent BRADYCARDIA, chronic ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, and failure to resume sinus rhythm following CARDIOVERSION.

Ontologies

Disease Ontology (DOID) DOID_13884
GWAS Catalogue Orphanet_166282
MeSH D012804
SNOMED-CT 36083008

Key Summary Statistics

Cases from any source

Total 1302
Female (%) 556 (43%)
Male (%) 746 (57%)

Year first recorded

sick_sinus 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 sick_sinus cases

Incidence & prevalence

Sex and age-stratified incidence and prevalence of sick_sinus

Baseline prevalence stratified by sex

Female 4.6 (3.15,6.04)
Male 7.7 (5.67,9.73)

Incidence stratified by sex

Female 1.05 (0.79,1.32)
Male 1.71 (1.33,2.08)

Incidence stratified by age

Ages 40-44 0.1 (-0.1,0.3)
Ages 45-49 0.44 (0.09,0.8)
Ages 50-54 0.63 (0.24,1.03)
Ages 55-59 0.73 (0.35,1.11)
Ages 60-64 1.92 (1.39,2.45)
Ages 65-69 3.02 (2.25,3.78)

Period prevalence

Methods

Comparison with general population

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

CALIBER and UKB sick_sinus prevalence comparison for multiple age groups

Population Ages 40-49 Ages 50-59 Ages 60-69
UK Biobank 3 (2,6) 8 (6,10) 20 (17,23)
CALIBER 2 (2,3) 5 (4,6) 15 (14,16)

Stratified by age and Townsend deprivation status

Deprivation status Ages 40-49 Ages 50-59 Ages 60-69
Least deprived 7(2,15) 9(4,15) 21(15,29)
Low 3(0,10) 9(4,16) 18(13,25)
Medium 4(1,11) 7(3,13) 16(11,23)
High 1(0,7) 6(3,12) 21(14,29)
Most deprived 2(0,7) 8(4,15) 24(17,33)

Stratified by age and country

Country Ages 40-49 Ages 50-59 Ages 60-69
England 4(2,6) 8(6,11) 18(15,22)
Scotland 2(0,10) 6(2,14) 22(14,34)
Wales 4(0,21) 6(1,18) 31(19,47)

Risk factors analysis

‘Healthy’ BMI, smoking status ‘never’, or no hypertension (absence of hypertension records) were considered as reference values.

Hazard Ratio (HR) values with P < 0.0002 were considered to show significant association with disease onset after correction for multiple-testing using the Bonferroni method

N=153979, Events=141

Factor Level Hazard Ratio P value
BMI overweight 1.41 (0.92, 2.17) 0.113
BMI obese 1.52 (0.95, 2.43) 0.0832
BMI underweight 0 (0, Inf) 0.992
smoking previous 0.89 (0.63, 1.27) 0.531
smoking current 0.83 (0.44, 1.56) 0.561
hypertension yes 1.5 (1.06, 2.12) 0.0207

Definition

UK Biobank field id Description Code Value
20002 Non-cancer illness code, self-reported 1486 sick sinus syndrome
41202 Diagnoses - main ICD10 I49.5 Sick sinus syndrome
41204 Diagnoses - secondary ICD10 I49.5 Sick sinus syndrome
40001 Underlying (primary) cause of death: ICD10 I49.5 Sick sinus syndrome
40002 Contributory (secondary) causes of death: ICD10 I49.5 Sick sinus syndrome
42040 GP clinical event records G57y300 Sick sinus syndrome
42040 GP clinical event records G57y400 Sinoatrial node dysfunction NOS