Showing posts with label How Common is Coat's?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label How Common is Coat's?. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

How Common is Coat's?

What are the odds?

Since not a single person we've told has ever heard of this disease or knows someone who has it, we've been looking for a statistic. I'm not sure why -- perhaps to torture ourselves a bit more.

I found this site which lists various rare diseases and their prevalence:
http://www.orpha.net/orphacom/cahiers/docs/GB/Prevalence_of_rare_diseases_by_decreasing_prevalence_or_cases.pdf

Coat's is listed as 2 in 100,000.

If the US population is about 305,000,000, at 1:50,000 there are about 75 new cases each year. Not having been a math major, this may not be an exact calculation, but shows you how uncommon this is.