title: Population frequencies of neuromuscular diseases--II. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (motor neurone disease).
abstract: A summary of the world literature on the prevalence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (motor neurone disease) has been carried out. Excluding those particular isolates with especially high prevalences (e.g. Guam and the Kii Peninsula of Japan), the mean prevalence among both sexes in other populations is around 41.6 x 10(-6) or 1 in 24,000.
authors.affiliation: European Neuromuscular Centre, Baarn, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Emery
mesh_terms: D000690:Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D009046:Motor Neurons; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence