... or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Motor neuron disease Prevalence Capture-recapture method Administrative data Despite the importance of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS...

... Department of Veterans Affairs ALS registry that have been proven to be reliable indicators for accurate ALS diagnoses [ 14 ]. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Motor neuron disease Females Menopause Reproductive history Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a complex neurodegenerative disease...

...(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Motor neuron disease Prevalence Incidence Prognosis Survival Original Paper...

...Bebiana Conde; João Carlos Winck; Luís Filipe Azevedo Background: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rare and progressive neurodegenerative disease involving the upper and lower motor neurons. It is also the most common and the one with the worst prognosis among the motor neuron diseases (MND...

... or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Motor neuron disease Prevalence Prevalence ratio Capture-recapture Log-linear models Administrative data National Institutes of Health (NIH...

...Theodore C. Larson; Wendy Kaye; Paul Mehta; D. Kevin Horton Background: The International Classification of Disease, 10th Revision (ICD-10) did not include a code specific for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) until 2017. Instead, code G12.2 included both ALS and other motor neuron diseases (MND...

...Roger Pamphlett; Elizabeth Cochran Ward Background: Controversy persists as to whether smoking is a risk factor for sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (SALS), the most common form of sporadic motor neuron disease (SMND). We therefore undertook a large case-control study of smoking and SALS...

..., Service de Neurologie, Limoges, France; d University of Bari, School of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Bari, Italy Key Words Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Motor neuron disease Incidence Mortality Death certificate Abstract Background: Because studies of the incidence...

... no studies from 6 of the Canadian provinces or from the territories. Future research is needed to estimate the frequency of occurrence of ALS in Canada. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Motor neuron disease Epidemiology Incidence Prevalence Canada 16 12 2008 5 04 2009 30 5 2009...

...(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Motor neuron disease Geographical distribution Population study Original Paper...

..., N.C., and eDepartment of Neurology, Lexington Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., USA Key Words Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Gulf War Motor neuron disease Veterans deployed to the Gulf region, the level of risk remained fairly constant during the 11-year...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Disease register Incidence Clinical course Migrant studies Multiple sclerosis Motor neuron disease Creutzfeldt...

...Scott B. Patten; Lawrence W. Svenson; Christopher M. White; Salma M. Khaled; Luanne M. Metz Several studies have suggested that there may be an increased prevalence of affective disorders in people with motor neuron disease (MND). However, the literature is inconsistent, possibly because of small...

...Rosalind Gait; Claire Maginnis; Sarah Lewis; Neil Pickering; Marilyn Antoniak; Richard Hubbard; Ian Lawson; John Britton Previous studies based on recalled occupational histories have implicated metal and solvent exposure in the etiology of motor neuron disease (MND). We have used death...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Motor neuron disease Evidence-based medicine Risk factors Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Case-control studies Cohort studies Mortality studies Occupations Invited Review Neuroepidemiology...

... and temporal patterns, particularly in uncommon diseases. Recent surveys of motor neuron disease (MND) and multiple sclerosis (MS) based on official mortality statistics in Italy showed a decreasing trend of mortality from northern to southern Italy. To evaluate if DCs are homogeneously recorded in Italy...

... Motor neuron disease W Risk factors W Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Abstract In order to evaluate reported associations of environmental risk factors with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), consideration is given first to robust clinical and epidemiologic observations. These are observations which...

... of fractures, electrical shocks, or surgeries, a history of residence in rural areas, a history of travel to areas in the western Pacific where ALS is endemic, and a medical history of polio, polio immunization, or tetanus immunization. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Motor neuron disease Physical trauma...

...K.Y. Fong; Y.L. Yu; Y.W. Chan; R. Kay; J. Chan; Z. Yang; M.C. Kwan; K.P. Leung; P.C.K. Li; T.H. Lam; R.T.F. Cheung This study documents the clinical features, incidence and prevalence of motor neuron disease (MND) in Hong Kong Chinese. Patients with MND who were alive between 1989 and 1992 were...

...Chiara Briani; Michela Marcon; Mauro Dam; Ettore Beghi; Elena Pegoraro; Corrado Angelini Recent epidemiological surveys indicated that the rate of morbidity and mortality from motor neuron disease (MND) has increased worldwide. We evaluated whether the incidence of the disease has also changed...