danielito
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Hi everybody,
I would like to ask you about the statistics. Anybody knows the canches of getting ALS if you are in your 20's. I read here: http://www.amyotrophiclateralsclerosis.org/ that the chances are really low if you are below 38, but anyway, they present this statistics as an example more than a fact.
They say the average age is over 60 in most of the studies, and the standard deviation is about 10 years, meainig it that the number of people getting ALS below 38 and above 92 represent only the 0,03%. They do write that ALS has not enterely normal age distribution and the number of people in their 30's with ALS could be much higher.
I also read some statistics about USA, and they showed based in the mortality rate, that the number of people suffering of MND between 1989-1998 were 44373, from which 474 were in ages below 35. Making a simple three rule calculation, it is about 1% (http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/NEWS/alsreport.html).
Does anybody knows better approaches to the real age distribution of ALS?
Thanks
I would like to ask you about the statistics. Anybody knows the canches of getting ALS if you are in your 20's. I read here: http://www.amyotrophiclateralsclerosis.org/ that the chances are really low if you are below 38, but anyway, they present this statistics as an example more than a fact.
They say the average age is over 60 in most of the studies, and the standard deviation is about 10 years, meainig it that the number of people getting ALS below 38 and above 92 represent only the 0,03%. They do write that ALS has not enterely normal age distribution and the number of people in their 30's with ALS could be much higher.
I also read some statistics about USA, and they showed based in the mortality rate, that the number of people suffering of MND between 1989-1998 were 44373, from which 474 were in ages below 35. Making a simple three rule calculation, it is about 1% (http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/NEWS/alsreport.html).
Does anybody knows better approaches to the real age distribution of ALS?
Thanks