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Rare diseases hit fewer than 1 in 1500 people, but 1 in 12 people have a rare disease (vitamin might D help)

Have Pain? Are You Crazy? Rare Diseases Pt. 2 Scientific American Feb 2014

  • Most orphan diseases have a genetic basis
  • 95% have no approved treatment.
  • Survey found it took orphan disease patients an average of 7.6 years to be properly diagnosed,
      after visits to 8 physicians.

Rare Disease Wikipedia

  • Many rare diseases appear early in life
  • About 30 % of children with rare diseases will die before age 5
  • A disease may be considered rare in one part of the world, or in a particular group of people, but still be common in another.
    Comment by VitaminDWiki: Rickets is a rare disease in developed countries (1 in 200,000) but is common in Mongolia (1 in 5)
  • EURORDIS lumps both rare diseases and neglected diseases into a larger category of orphan diseases.
      estimates that as many as 5,000 to 7,000 distinct rare diseases exist, and as much as 6% to 8% of the population of the European Union is affected by one.

See also VitaminDWiki


Note: VitaminDWiki has not had enough resources to report on the Orphan Diseases and Vitamin D since about 2012.
Far, Far too much to read/upload of the “non-rare” diseases and health problems