Statistics by Country for Muscular Dystrophy

Incidence (annual) of Muscular Dystrophy:

500 - 600 male newborns are diagnosed with muscular dystrophy each year in the US, Duchenne and Becker types, Genetics Home Reference website

Incidence Rate for Muscular Dystrophy: approx 1 in 544,000 or 0.00% or 500 people in USA [about data] Extrapolation of Incidence Rate for Muscular Dystrophy to Countries and Regions: WARNING! EXTRAPOLATION ONLY. NOT BASED ON COUNTRY-SPECIFIC DATA SOURCES. The following table attempts to extrapolate the above incidence rate for Muscular Dystrophy to the populations of various countries and regions. As discussed above, these incidence extrapolations for Muscular Dystrophy are only estimates and may have very limited relevance to the actual incidence of Muscular Dystrophy in any region:

About extrapolations of prevalence and incidence statistics for Muscular Dystrophy:

WARNING! EXTRAPOLATED STATISTICS ONLY! Not based on data sources from individual countries. These statistics are calculated extrapolations of various prevalence or incidence rates against the populations of a particular country or region. The statistics used for prevalence/incidence of Muscular Dystrophy are typically based on US, UK, Canadian or Australian prevalence or incidence statistics, which are then extrapolated using only the population of the other country. This extrapolation calculation is automated and does not take into account any genetic, cultural, environmental, social, racial or other differences across the various countries and regions for which the extrapolated Muscular Dystrophy statistics below refer to. The extrapolation does not use data sources or statistics about any country other than its population. As such, these extrapolations may be highly inaccurate (especially for developing or third-world countries) and only give a general indication (or even a meaningless indication) as to the actual prevalence or incidence of Muscular Dystrophy in that region. These statistics are presented only in the hope that they may be interesting to some people.

About prevalence and incidence statistics in general for Muscular Dystrophy:

The word 'prevalence' of Muscular Dystrophy usually means the estimated population of people who are managing Muscular Dystrophy at any given time (i.e. people with Muscular Dystrophy). The term 'incidence' of Muscular Dystrophy means the annual diagnosis rate, or the number of new cases of Muscular Dystrophy diagnosed each year (i.e. getting Muscular Dystrophy). Hence, these two statistics types can differ: a short 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.

Rate This Website

What do you think about the features of this website? Take our user survey and have your say:

Website User Survey

Medical Tools & Articles:

Next articles:

• Medical News Summaries About Muscular Dystrophy
• Articles about Muscular Dystrophy
• Glossary for Muscular Dystrophy
• Clinical Trials for Muscular Dystrophy
• Images relating to Muscular Dystrophy

Tools & Services:

• Bookmark this page
• Take a survey relating to Muscular Dystrophy
• Symptom Search
• Symptom Checker
• Medical Dictionary
• Give your feedback

Medical Articles:

• Disease & Treatments Search
• Misdiagnosis Center
• Full list of interesting articles

Forums & Message Boards

• Ask or answer a question at the Boards:
• I cannot get a diagnosis. Please help.
• Tell us your medical story.
• Share your misdiagnosis story.
• What is the best treatment for my condition?
• See all the Boards.

Enter your search terms Submit search form
Search The Web Search wrongdiagnosis.com

Common Health Mistakes

Symptom
Checker

Search Specialists by State and City