NR ANZW
AU Bignall,J..
TI CJD rates increases in Austria
QU Lancet 1997 Saturday 31 August; 348(N9027)
PT Letter
VT
Worldwide the incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is about 1 per million population per year. The rate in Austria was once much lower than this (average 0,18 per million for 1969-85) but in the last 10 years it has risen to one of the highest in Europe, 1,25 per million in 1995 (figure; J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1996; 61: 139-42).
Prof Herbert Budka and colleagues from [Image] the Institute of Neurology in Vienna attribute the increase to more effective case finding: "Austria is a small country with a high necropsy rate and well developed neurology and neuropathology services". There has been a similar increase in the incidence of CJD in the UK which has also been attributed to increased awareness of the illness, particularly in older people. None of the Austrian patients reported had the new variant CJD described earlier this year in the UK, although two women died unusually young (at the ages of 27 and 30) but without any of the other features associated with the new variant.
John Bignall
ZR 1 Zitat
SP englisch
OR Prion-Krankheiten 2