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Figure 3: Diagnosis of “chronic tonsillitis” (ICD-10: J35.0). The graphs indicate the prevalence (y-axis) on a yearly basis for male and female patients (x-axis). Between 2000 and 2013, the number of these diagnoses decreased by factor 1.68. This decrease was registered more often in male patients (44.4%) than in female patients (37.7%).