A Nationwide, Population-Based Prevalence Study of Genetic Muscle Disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous epidemiological studies of genetic muscle disorders have relied on medical records to identify cases and may be at risk of selection biases or have focused on selective population groups.

Objectives

This study aimed to determine age-standardised prevalence of genetic muscle disorders through a nationwide, epidemiological study across the lifespan using the capture-recapture method.

Methods

Adults and children with a confirmed clinical or molecular diagnosis of a genetic muscle disorder, resident in New Zealand on April 1, 2015 were identified using multiple overlapping sources. Genetic muscle disorders included the muscular dystrophies, congenital myopathies, ion channel myopathies, GNE myopathy, and Pompe disease. Prevalence per 100,000 persons by

SUBMITTER: Theadom A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6518995 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature