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Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is a rare neurological condition that predominantly affects the nerve cells in charge of regulating voluntary muscular activity.
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How many people are suffering from ALS Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is a rare neurological condition that predominantly affects the nerve cells in charge of regulating voluntary muscular activity. With a median diagnosis age of 55, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis commonly affects people between the ages of forty and seventy. However, the disease can also strike certain people in their twenties and thirties. Typically, the prevalence of ALS increases with age in both men and women. Men experience ALS twenty percent more frequently than women do. However, as experience ALS twenty percent more frequently than women do. However, as people get older, the prevalence of ALS is more evenly distributed across men and women. According to the ALS Association, there are between 5,760 and 6,400 new diagnoses of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis every year, or 1.8 to 2 cases per 100,000 individuals.
Approximately four to six persons out of every 100,000 people worldwide are estimated to have ALS at any given moment. According to the data that is currently available 6,000 Americans are diagnosed with ALS annually, and 60% of men and 93% of Caucasians are affected.
