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The FSHD Society (named "FSH Society" until 2019) [170] was founded in 1991 on the East Coast by two individuals with FSHD, Daniel Perez and Stephen Jacobsen. [171] [172] The FSHD Society claims to have advocated for the standardization of the disease name facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy and its abbreviation FSHD. [170]
Many affected people will eventually become unable to walk [2] and Duchenne muscular dystrophy in particular is associated with shortened life expectancy. Muscular dystrophy was first described in the 1830s by Charles Bell. [2] The word "dystrophy" comes from the Greek dys, meaning "no, un-" and troph-meaning "nourish". [2]
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) ... Prevalence ranges from 1 to 9 cases per 100,000 people. [3] LGMDR1 represents 30% of all LGMD cases. [3] History
More than 1 billion persons in the world have some form of disability. This corresponds to about 15% of the world's population. Between 110 and 190 million people have very significant difficulties in functioning. People with disabilities are more likely to be unemployed than non-disabled people.
Numbers of US dollar millionaires by world region per Credit Suisse (2022) [2] Rank Region Numbers (in thousands) Percentage of world total numbers As percentage of total adult population - World 62,489 100.0 1.1 1 Northern America: 26,778 41.9 9.5 2 Europe: 16,696 26.7 2.8 3 Asia-Pacific: 10,755 17.2 0.8 4 China: 6,190 9.9 0.6 5 Latin America ...
In 2002, there were about 57 million deaths. In 2005, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), about 58 million people died. [1] In 2010, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 52.8 million people died. [2]
Dhaulagiri I is the world's seventh highest mountain. There had been 691 successful ascents since the first one, by a team led by Kurt Diemberger in 1960. 87 people are known to have lost their lives on the slopes of Dhaulagiri I. [1]
Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect.