Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Mortality in the United States, 2011 –2014

Conclusions: Previous reports of ALS mortality in the United States showed similar age, sex, and race distributions but with greater age-adjusted mortality rates due to the inclusion of other diseases in the case definition. When using ICD-10 data collected prior to 2017, additional review of multiple-cause of death data is required for the accurate estimation of ALS deaths.Neuroepidemiology 2018;51:96 –103

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Source: Neuroepidemiology - July 10, 2018 Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research