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Wilson's disease (WD, OMIM #277900), also named as Hepatolenticular degeneration, is an autosomal recessive chronic copper metabolic disorder. At first, Scheinberg and Sternlieb estimated the clinical prevalence of the disease as 1/30000 based on limited available data. With the discovery of a large number of patients with Wilson’s disease and the widely use of gene sequencing, researchers have a deeper understanding of the incidence rate of this disease. Based on four high-quality clinical studies, Sandahl, T. D. and others assessed the incidence rate of the disease as between 1/29000 and 1/40000, while the incidence rate assessed based on the number of WD patients in the birth population was between 1/40000 and 1/50000 (1).
Table 1 Prevalence estimates based on the number of presenting cases relative to number of births.
|
Country |
Period |
Cases diagnosed |
No. of births |
Prevalence |
Reference |
|
Switzerland |
1946-55 |
19 |
/ |
1:44800 |
(2) |
|
Eastern Germany |
1949-1977 |
123 |
4.2 mio/28 years |
1:34400 |
(3) |
|
Western Germany |
1962 |
/ |
/ |
1:86000 |
(4) |
|
Sardinia |
1971-1981 |
16 |
266944 |
1:16700 |
(5) |
|
Ireland |
1980-1989 |
12 |
637 |
1:53000 |
(6) |
|
Denmark |
1981-1985 |
4 |
55000/year |
1:68750 |
(7) |
|
Denmark |
1990-2009 |
28 |
70000/year |
1:49500 |
(8) |
|
Czech Republic |
1995-2008 |
76 |
95000/year |
1:16500 |
(9) |
|
Poland |
1996-2016 |
156 |
385000/year |
1:49000 |
(10) |
Table 2 Screening for Wilson Disease by measurement of ceruloplasmin in blood or urine or detection of the Kayser-Fleisher (KF)-ring.
|
Method/year |
Country |
No. |
WD |
Prevalence |
Reference |
|
Blood Ceruloplasmin |
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|
1999 |
Japan |
126810 |
0 |
0 |
(11) |
|
1999 |
Japan |
24165 |
3 |
1:8084 |
(11) |
|
1999 |
Japan |
2789 |
2 |
1:1400 |
(12) |
|
2002 |
South Korea |
3667 |
1 |
1:3667 |
(13) |
|
2006 |
USA |
1398 |
0 |
0 |
(14) |
|
U-Holo- Ceruloplasmin |
|||||
|
2002 |
Japan |
48819 |
2 |
1:24400 |
(15) |
|
U-Ceruloplasmin |
|||||
|
2008 |
Japan |
11362 |
1 |
1:11362 |
(16) |
|
K-F Rings |
|||||
|
2014 |
China |
153370 |
9 |
1:17000 |
(17) |
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