Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or a subtype of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ophanet, a consortium of European partners,
currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000.
They list Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Introduction
Types of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease:
Broader types of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease:
Incidence (annual) of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: 1-per-million
Incidence Rate of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: approx 1 in 1,000,000 or 0.00% or 271 people in USA [about data]
Prevalance of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease:
It affects about one person in every one million
people per year worldwide; in the United States there are about 200 cases
per year.
(Source: excerpt from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Fact Sheet: NINDS)
...
On the basis of mortality surveillance from 1979 to 1994, the annual
incidence of CJD remained stable at approximately 1 case per million
persons in the United States.
(Source: excerpt from Facts About Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: CDC-OC)
...
The usual type of CJD occurs worldwide and strikes about one in a
million people per year. (Source: excerpt from Update Follow-Up Study of NHPP Growth Hormone Recipients: NIDDK)
Profile for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Typically, onset of symptoms occurs at about age 60. (Source: excerpt from NINDS Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Information Page: NINDS) ... The disease is found most frequently in patients 55-65 years of age, but cases can occur in persons older than 90 years and younger than 55 years of age. (Source: excerpt from Facts About Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: CDC-OC) ... Most people with CJD are between 55 and 79 years old. (Source: excerpt from Update Follow-Up Study of NHPP Growth Hormone Recipients: NIDDK)
Prognosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Poor. Typically death within 12 months.
Complications of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease:
see complications of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Prognosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease:
About 90 percent of patients die within 1 year. In the
early stages of disease, patients may have failing memory, behavioral
changes, lack of coordination and visual disturbances. As the illness
progresses, mental deterioration becomes pronounced and involuntary
movements, blindness, weakness of extremities, and coma may occur.
(Source: excerpt from NINDS Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Information Page: NINDS)
Causes of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: see causes of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Risk factors for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease:
see
risk factors for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: see symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Complications of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: see complications of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Duration of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: In more than 85 percent of cases, the duration of CJD is less than 1 year (median: 4 months) after onset of symptoms. (Source: excerpt from Facts About Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: CDC-OC)
Contagion of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Not generally contagious. Not even by blood transfusion. Very rarely by direct brain contagion such as in brain surgery or organ transplants; see contagion of prion diseases.
More information:
see contagiousness of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Inheritance:
see inheritance of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
Treatments for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease:
see treatments for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Research for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease:
see research for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Organs and body systems related to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease include:
Main name of condition: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Class of Condition for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: prion
CJD, Jakob's disease, Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease, atrophia spongiforme cerebrale, Brownell-Oppenheimer, corticostriatal-spinal degeneration, Creutzfeldt Jacob disease, Hereditary CJD (subtype), Acquired CJD (subtype), Sporadic CJD (subtype)
CJD, Jakob-Creutzfeldt Disease
Source - Diseases Database
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, CJD, Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease
Source - WordNet 2.1
Hereditary CJD (subtype), Sporadic CJD (subtype), VCJD, Creutzfeldt Jacob disease, Acquired CJD (subtype)
Source - Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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