Estimating cumulative point prevalence of rare diseases: analysis of the Orphanet database.

Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 165 - 173
Published: Feb 1, 2020
Abstract
Rare diseases, an emerging global public health priority, require an evidence-based estimate of the global point prevalence to inform public policy. We used the publicly available epidemiological data in the Orphanet database to calculate such a prevalence estimate. Overall, Orphanet contains information on 6172 unique rare diseases; 71.9% of which are genetic and 69.9% which are exclusively pediatric onset. Global point prevalence was...
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Estimating cumulative point prevalence of rare diseases: analysis of the Orphanet database.
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Feb 1, 2020
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Volume
28
Issue
2
Pages
165 - 173
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