Prevalence and Incidence of Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral Palsy Prevalence: Book Excerpts
Incidence (annual) of Cerebral Palsy:
2 to 2.5 per 1,000 births (FMC) ... see also overview of Cerebral Palsy.
Incidence Rate:
approx 1 in 34,000 or 0.00% or 8,000 people in USA [Source statistic for calcuation: "2 to 2.5 per 1,000 births (FMC)" -- see also general information about data sources]
Incidence extrapolations for USA for Cerebral Palsy:
8,000 per year,
666 per month,
153 per week,
21 per day,
0 per hour,
0 per minute,
0 per second.
[Source statistic for calculation: "2 to 2.5 per 1,000 births (FMC)" -- see also general information about data sources]
More Statistics about Cerebral Palsy:
Hospitalization statistics
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Prevalence/Incidence of Cerebral Palsy: Online Medical Books
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Cerebral palsy:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
See Causes of cerebral palsy, for a more detailed description of the causes of CP. Incidence is slightly higher in premature neonates (anoxia plays the greatest role in contributing to CP) and in neonates who are small for their gestational age. CP is slightly more common in males than in females. For every 1,000 births, 2 to 4 neo-nates are affected.
Spastic cerebral palsy is the most common type of CP, affecting about 50% of CP patients.Athetoid cerebral palsy affects about 20% of CP patients, ataxic cerebral palsy accounts for another 10% of these patients, and the remaining 20% of patients are mixed, with a combination of symptoms.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Cerebral Palsy:
Cerebral Palsy - epidemiology
(The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult)
- ~50% of cases are associated with prematurity.
- Increased concordance among monozygotic versus dizygotic twins in some studies (not in others)
- Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) more common in CP than controls, especially for full-term infants in whom CP develops
- Male > Female (1.3:1)
- Inconsistent relationship to maternal age, socioeconomic status, and parity
- Prenatal factors are more strongly associated with subsequent CP than are perinatal or postnatal factors; however, individual risk factors are poorly predictive of subsequent CP in the individual child.
- Diagnosis of perinatal asphyxia requires evidence of hypoxic–ischemic insult, severe encephalopathy (e.g., neonatal seizures, severe hypotonia), consistent laboratory/radiological findings; accounts for only ~9% of cases of CP.
Cerebral Palsy - incidence prevalence
- Increased with multiple gestation (10% were twins in 1 study)
- Prevalence ~2/1000
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Source: The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, 2008
About prevalence and incidence statistics:
The term 'prevalence' of Cerebral Palsy usually refers to the estimated population
of people who are managing Cerebral Palsy at any given time.
The term 'incidence' of Cerebral Palsy refers to the annual diagnosis rate,
or the number of new cases of Cerebral Palsy diagnosed each year.
Hence, these two statistics types can differ:
a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence,
but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence.
For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.
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