About 16 cases of Tay-Sachs disease are diagnosed each year.
The defective gene that causes Tay-Sachs disease is found in roughly 1 in 250 people in the general population.
In Alzheimer's disease, CAA is more common than in the general population, and may occur in more than 80% of patients over age 60.
1 IN 2,500
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1 in 10,000 people have it, but a child of a person who has Huntington's disease, has a 50% chance of getting it. and 1-3% of people with no history of the disease get it.
Gaucher disease is found in populations all over the world (20,00 to 40,000 people have a type of the disease), and it occurs with equal frequency in males and females.
To occur often or widely An illness can be common or widespread if a lot of people in a population have it.
It occurs in approximately 1 in 26,000 to 1 in 40,000 births.
About 20% of the population that had chickenpox will develop shingles later in life.
Diseases can occur more often in rural areas due to factors such as limited access to healthcare facilities, lower levels of education and awareness about prevention measures, challenges in implementing public health programs, and a higher prevalence of certain risk factors such as poor sanitation and limited resources for timely diagnosis and treatment.
RA occurs i about 1to2% of the population and and is more prevalent in women then men.
happens in only about 1-2% of pregnant women. But multi-fetal pregnancies occur far more often in women using fertility drugs.