Prevalence and Incidence of Diabetes Insipidus
Diabetes Insipidus Prevalence: Book Excerpts
Incidence (annual) of Diabetes Insipidus:
less than 15 per 100,000 hospitalized patients ... see also overview of Diabetes Insipidus.
Incidence Rate:
approx 1 in 6,666 or 0.01% or 40,800 people in USA [Source statistic for calcuation: "less than 15 per 100,000 hospitalized patients" -- see also general information about data sources]
Incidence extrapolations for USA for Diabetes Insipidus:
40,799 per year,
3,399 per month,
784 per week,
111 per day,
4 per hour,
0 per minute,
0 per second.
[Source statistic for calculation: "less than 15 per 100,000 hospitalized patients" -- see also general information about data sources]
Prevalence/Incidence of Diabetes Insipidus: Online Medical Books
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Diabetes insipidus:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Diabetes insipidus results centrally from intracranial neoplastic or metastatic lesions, hypophysectomy or other neurosurgery, a skull fracture, or head trauma that damages the neurohypophyseal structures. It can also result nephrogenically from infection, granulomatous disease, and vascular lesions; it may be idiopathic and, rarely, familial. (Note: Pituitary diabetes insipidus shouldn’t be confused with nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, a rare congenital disturbance of water metabolism that results from renal tubular resistance to vasopressin.)
Normally, the hypothalamus synthesizes vasopressin. The posterior pituitary gland (or neurohypophysis) stores vasopressin and releases it into general circulation, where it causes the kidneys to reabsorb water by making the distal tubules and collecting duct cells water-permeable. The absence of vasopressin in diabetes insipidus allows the filtered water to be excreted in the urine instead of being reabsorbed.
Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus involves a defect in the parts of the kidneys that reabsorb water back into the bloodstream. It occurs less commonly than central diabetes insipidus. Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus may occur as an inherited disorder in which male children receive the abnormal gene that causes the disease on the X chromosome from their mothers. Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus may also be caused by diseases of the kidney (such as polycystic kidney disease) and the effects of certain drugs (such as lithium and amphotericin B).
Diabetes insipidus is rare, affecting 1 in 25,000 people. Males and females are affected equally.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Diabetes Insipidus:
Diabetes Insipidus - incidence
(The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult)
Because most cases are secondary to another disease, the incidence depends on the primary causes.
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Source: The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, 2008
About prevalence and incidence statistics:
The term 'prevalence' of Diabetes Insipidus usually refers to the estimated population
of people who are managing Diabetes Insipidus at any given time.
The term 'incidence' of Diabetes Insipidus refers to the annual diagnosis rate,
or the number of new cases of Diabetes Insipidus 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.
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