Metadata

Name Chronic sinusitis (sinusitis)
Category Respiratory
Sex
Adult Yes
UUID 07f78609-6459-4673-a408-de309d31a9e0
Definition An inflammatory process affecting the mucous membranes of any sinus cavity.

Ontologies

Disease Ontology (DOID) DOID_0050127
GWAS Catalogue EFO_1000024
SNOMED-CT 40055000
FinnGen J10_CHRONSINUSITIS

Key Summary Statistics

Cases from any source

Total 36360
Female (%) 22867 (63%)
Male (%) 13493 (37%)

Year first recorded

sinusitis 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 sinusitis cases

Incidence & prevalence

Sex and age-stratified incidence and prevalence of sinusitis

Baseline prevalence stratified by sex

Female 1112.53 (1091.37,1133.69)
Male 738.88 (719.7,758.07)

Incidence stratified by sex

Female 61.94 (59.74,64.13)
Male 41.87 (39.94,43.8)

Incidence stratified by age

Ages 40-44 50.39 (45.72,55.07)
Ages 45-49 50.72 (46.69,54.74)
Ages 50-54 52.07 (48.28,55.85)
Ages 55-59 54.86 (51.34,58.38)
Ages 60-64 54.82 (51.8,57.85)
Ages 65-69 50.11 (46.82,53.4)

Period prevalence

Methods

Comparison with general population

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

CALIBER and UKB sinusitis prevalence comparison for multiple age groups

Population Ages 40-49 Ages 50-59 Ages 60-69
UK Biobank 1222 (1189,1256) 1266 (1240,1294) 1268 (1245,1291)
CALIBER 285 (280,289) 371 (365,376) 393 (387,399)

Stratified by age and Townsend deprivation status

Deprivation status Ages 40-49 Ages 50-59 Ages 60-69
Least deprived 1233(1154,1316) 1353(1292,1417) 1315(1264,1366)
Low 1333(1250,1420) 1286(1226,1349) 1325(1275,1377)
Medium 1224(1147,1304) 1321(1260,1384) 1274(1224,1325)
High 1208(1138,1282) 1239(1181,1300) 1202(1151,1255)
Most deprived 1146(1082,1213) 1142(1087,1200) 1205(1151,1260)

Stratified by age and country

Country Ages 40-49 Ages 50-59 Ages 60-69
England 1193(1156,1230) 1273(1243,1303) 1272(1246,1298)
Scotland 893(812,979) 862(802,925) 811(758,866)
Wales 2115(1955,2285) 1885(1771,2004) 1948(1846,2055)

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=153513, Events=116

Factor Level Hazard Ratio P value
BMI overweight 1.85 (1.14, 2.99) 0.0128
BMI obese 1.9 (1.12, 3.22) 0.0174
BMI underweight 0 (0, Inf) 0.993
smoking previous 0.82 (0.53, 1.27) 0.367
smoking current 1.79 (1.09, 2.95) 0.0215
hypertension yes 1.55 (1.01, 2.37) 0.0432

Risk factors analysis forest plot

Definition

UK Biobank field id Description Code Value
20002 Non-cancer illness code, self-reported 1416 chronic sinusitis
41202 Diagnoses - main ICD10 J32 Chronic sinusitis
41204 Diagnoses - secondary ICD10 J32 Chronic sinusitis
40001 Underlying (primary) cause of death: ICD10 J32 Chronic sinusitis
40002 Contributory (secondary) causes of death: ICD10 J32 Chronic sinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records H01..11 Sinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records H130.00 Chronic maxillary sinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records H130.11 Antritis - chronic
42040 GP clinical event records H130.12 Maxillary sinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records H131.00 Chronic frontal sinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records H131.11 Frontal sinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records H132.00 Chronic ethmoidal sinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records H133.00 Chronic sphenoidal sinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records H135.00 Recurrent sinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records H13..00 Chronic sinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records H13..11 Chronic rhinosinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records H13y000 Chronic pansinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records H13y100 Pansinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records H13y.00 Other chronic sinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records H13yz00 Other chronic sinusitis NOS
42040 GP clinical event records H13z.00 Chronic sinusitis NOS
42040 GP clinical event records H17..12 Allergic rhinosinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records Hyu2200 [X]Other chronic sinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records XE0Y5 Allergic rhinitis
42040 GP clinical event records XE0Y0 Chronic maxillary sinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records XE0Xm Acute sinusitis
42040 GP clinical event records XE0Y1 Chronic frontal sinusitis