What is Huntington's Disease?
What is Huntington's Disease?
- Huntington's Disease: Inherited disease causing progressive mental deterioration.
- Huntington's Disease: chronic progressive chorea and mental deterioration terminating in dementia; the age of onset usually is in the fourth decade of life.
Source - Diseases Database
- Huntington's Disease: hereditary disease; develops in adulthood and ends in dementia.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Huntington's Disease is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Huntington's Disease, or a subtype of Huntington's 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 Huntington's Disease as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
Huntington's Disease: Introduction
Types of Huntington's Disease:
Broader types of Huntington's Disease:
How many people get Huntington's Disease?
Prevalance of Huntington's Disease: estimated 3-7 per 100,000 people of European ancestry suffer from Huntington disease, Genetics Home Reference website
Prevalance Rate of Huntington's Disease: approx 1 in 33,333 or 0.00% or 8,160 people in USA [about data]
Incidence (annual) of Huntington's Disease: 26 annual cases in Victoria 1996 (DHS-VIC)
Incidence Rate of Huntington's Disease: approx 1 in 175,390 or 0.00% or 1,550 people in USA [about data]
Prevalance of Huntington's Disease:
About 30,000 Americans have HD and about 150,000 more are at risk of inheriting the disease from a parent.
(Source: Genes and Disease by the National Center for Biotechnology)
Who gets Huntington's Disease?
Patient Profile for Huntington's Disease: Onset is variable but commonly arises in middle age.
Gender Profile for Huntington's Disease: Men and women equally
How serious is Huntington's Disease?
Prognosis of Huntington's Disease: Poor. Degenerative disease.
Complications of Huntington's Disease:
see complications of Huntington's Disease
Prognosis of Huntington's Disease:
At
this time, there is no way to stop or reverse the course of HD. Now that
the HD gene has been located, investigators are continuing to study the HD
gene with an eye toward understanding how it cause disease in the human
body.
(Source: excerpt from NINDS Huntington's Disease Information Page: NINDS)
What causes Huntington's Disease?
Causes of Huntington's Disease: see causes of Huntington's Disease
What are the symptoms of Huntington's Disease?
Symptoms of Huntington's Disease:
see symptoms of Huntington's Disease
Complications of Huntington's Disease:
see complications of Huntington's Disease
Duration of Huntington's Disease: Typically around 15 years from onset of symptoms.
Can anyone else get Huntington's Disease?
Inheritance:
see inheritance of Huntington's Disease
Inheritance of genetic conditions: see details in inheritance of genetic diseases.
Huntington's Disease: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Huntington's Disease.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Huntington's Disease.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Huntington's Disease:
see treatments for Huntington's Disease
Research for Huntington's Disease:
see research for Huntington's Disease
Society issues for Huntington's Disease
Hospitalization statistics for Huntington's Disease:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Huntington's Disease:
- 0.004% (479) of hospital consultant episodes were for Huntington’s Disease in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 81% of hospital consultant episodes for Huntington’s Disease required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 48% of hospital consultant episodes for Huntington’s Disease were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 52% of hospital consultant episodes for Huntington’s Disease were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 48% of hospital consultant episodes for Huntington’s Disease required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Huntington's Disease:
Organs and body systems related to Huntington's Disease include:
Name and Aliases of Huntington's Disease
Main name of condition: Huntington's Disease
Class of Condition for Huntington's Disease: genetic repeating triplet, genetic autosomal dominant, autoimmune possibly
Other names or spellings for Huntington's Disease:
Huntington's Chorea, HD, Huntington chorea
Huntington's chorea
Source - Diseases Database
Huntington's chorea, Huntington's disease
Source - WordNet 2.1
HD, Huntington's chorea, HD, HD, Huntington's chorea
Source - Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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