Prevalence and Incidence of Limb conditions
Prevalance of types of Limb conditions:
For details see prevalence of types of Limb conditions analysis; summary of available prevalence data:
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy: 1 per 6,000 - 10,000 people suffer from spinal muscular atrophy, Genetics Home Reference website
- Muscular dystrophy, Duchenne and Becker type: 1 per 3,500 - 5,000 male newborns suffer from muscular dystrophy, Duchenne and Becker types, Genetics Home Reference website
- Paralysis: 9 per 1000 - NHIS95 (paralysis of extremeties complete/partial)
- Raynaud's phenomenon: 5-10% (NIAMS estimate). Scleroderma-related disorders including Raynaud's phenomenon between 250,000 and 992,500.
- Bunions: 19.25 per 1000 - NHIS95 (trouble with bunions)
- Ingrown nails: 26 per 1000 - NHIS95 (trouble with ingrown nails)
- Osteoarthritis: 20 million people (NIAMS); more than 16 million people (NWHIC)
- Gout: 275 per 100,000 people (NIAMS)
- Pfeiffer syndrome: 1 per 100,000 people suffer from Pfeiffer syndrome, Genetics Home Reference website
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disorder: 150,000 people are affected by Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in the US, Genetics Home Reference website
- Amputation: 7 per 1000 (NHIS95: excludes toes/fingers only)
- Edwards Syndrome: 1 per 5,000 - 6,000 newborns are affected by Trisomy 18, Genetics Home Reference website
- Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy 3: estimated 1 per 3,700 people of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry suffer from familial dysautonomia, Genetics Home Reference website
- Holt-Oram Syndrome: estimated 1 per 100,000 people suffer from Holt-Oram disease, Genetics Home Reference website
- Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome: estimated 1 per 100,000 - 125,000 newborns suffer from Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome, Genetics Home Reference website
- Duane-radial ray syndrome: only a few cases of Duane-radial ray syndrome have been reported, Genetics Home Reference website
- Congenital myopathy: estimated 1 per 10,000 people from Scandinavia suffer from myotonia congenita worldwide, Genetics Home Reference website
- Cornelia de Lange Syndrome: estimated 1 per 10,000 - 30,000 newborns suffer from Cornelia de Lange syndrome, Genetics Home Reference website
- Glomus vagale tumors: 1% of glomus tumors are malignant
- Ellis-van Creveld syndrome: 1 per 60,000 - 200,000 newborns are affected by Ellis-van Creveld syndrome worldwide, Genetics Home Reference website
- Achondrogenesis: 1 per 40,000 - 60,000 people are affected by achondrogenesis type 2 and hypochondrogenesis, Genetics Home Reference website
- Stickler Syndrome: estimated 1 per 7,500 - 9,000 newborns suffer from Stickler syndrome, Genetics Home Reference website
- Marfan syndrome: 1 per 5,000 people are affected by Marfan syndrome worldwide, Genetics Home Reference website
- Apert syndrome: 1 per 100,000 people suffer from Apert syndrome, Genetics Home Reference website
- Thanatophoric dysplasia: 1 per 20,000 - 50,000 newborns are affected by Thanatophoric dysplasia, Genetics Home Reference website
- Strudwick syndrome: only a few cases of the condition have been reported, Genetics Home Reference website
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Incidence of types of Limb conditions:
For details see incidence of types of Limb conditions analysis; summary of available incidence by type data:
About prevalence and incidence statistics:
The term 'prevalence' of Limb conditions usually refers to the estimated population
of people who are managing Limb conditions at any given time.
The term 'incidence' of Limb conditions refers to the annual diagnosis rate,
or the number of new cases of Limb conditions diagnosed each year.
Hence, these two statistics types can differ:
a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence,
but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence.
For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.
