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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Epidemiology and Demographics
- FD belong to a group of lysosomal storage diseases that are related biochemically but not genetically.
- It seems plausible to describe FD as a disease with a wide spectrum of clinical phenotypes. This spectrum includes the classical type that is more severe and predominant in males and the less common asymptomatic or variant type seen in some women carriers of the disease that encompasses a variety of clinical presentations.
- FD is a rare genetic disease that is pan ethnic in origin i.e no particular ethnicity is more involved than the other.
variant type is milder and occurs in adolescence or adulthood
Prevalence
The prevalence of Fabry disease is estimated to range from 1:17,000 to 1:117,000 males in Caucasian populations.