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The prevalence of Huntington's disease in Tasmania
Author(s) -
Pridmore Saxby A
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1990.tb136828.x
Subject(s) - huntington's disease , demography , disease , prevalence , medicine , pathology , population , sociology
This is the first field study to determine the prevalence of Huntington's disease in Tasmania. It is based on almost complete enumeration of affected individuals as of January 1, 1990. The prevalence was found to be 12.1 per 100 000, which is somewhat below the figure often attributed to Tasmania but about twice that of the accepted average in Occidental populations.