INCIDENCE OF MENIERES-DISEASE

  • 1 January 1978
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 104  (2) , 99-102
Abstract
The incidence of Meniere''s disease in Sweden for the year 1973 was calculated as 1 case in a population of 2163. This gives an overall incidence of 46/100,000. Extrapolating the Swedish incidence data to the population of the USA, there should have been 97,000 cases of Meniere''s disease treated as inpatients or outpatients during the year 1973. The incidence in the USA of Meniere''s disease, cochlear type, is considered to be even higher. The Swedish statistics for some other disorders, including otosclerosis, are also reported. For otosclerosis, the yearly incidence in Sweden is 12/100,000 or 1 case in a population of 8414. This could be extrapolated to 25,000 patients with clinical otosclerosis in the USA for the year 1973. By comparison, Meniere''s disease, by stringent diagnostic criteria, is approximately 4 times as common as clinical otosclerosis. It is also more common than all laryngeal carcinomas, all salivary gland tumors (benign and malignant) acute epigiottitis and acute nephritis.

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