メニエ-ル病の有病率 (メニエ-ル病の研究-3-<特集>)

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A method to determine the prevalence of Meniere's disease in Japan was based on the probability distribution of intervals of medical care and presented as formula No. 3 in this paper. This method made feasible not only estimation of a prevalence of a disease during survey intervals but also enabled comparison of one prevalence to another despite different survey intervals i. e. one day and a week.Random sampling survey of hospitals and clinics in one day all over the country, and all large hospitals survey during one week in Japan, showed that the prevalence of Meniere's disease in Japan was estimated to be 160 per million population from the "one day survey" and here the diagnosis of the disease would probably not be so definite as in "a one week survey". The prevalence of the disease estimated from the latter survey was one-fourth to the former i. e. 40 per million.The geographical distribution of the disease was found to be higher in the southern regions of Japan.
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