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Table 1 Numbers of patients registered across countries as provided in April 2017

From: Eight years after an international workshop on myotonic dystrophy patient registries: case study of a global collaboration for a rare disease

Name of Registry

Country

Year established

DM1 > 18

DM1 < 18

DM2 > 18

DM2 < 18

National Registry for Myotonic Dystrophy and Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy Patients and Family Members

USA

2000

1177

67

214

0

CRAMPS

Netherlands

2001

452

0

30

0

Genemu**

Quebec, Canada

2005

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Belgian Neuromuscular Disease Registry

Belgium

2008

493

34

16

2

DM-SCOPE

France

2008

2203

255

107

0

Bulgarian Myotonic Dystrophy Registry

Bulgaria

2009

76

2

6

0

Akhenaten, Serbian Registry for Myotonic Dystrophies

Serbia

2009

335

0

86

0

Polish Registry of Neuromuscular Patients

Poland

2010

246

7

125

0

ReaDY Myotonic Disorders

Czech Republic

2011

184

5

286

2

Canadian Neuromuscular Disease Registry

Canada

2011

188

21

38

0

New Zealand Neuromuscular Disease Registry

New Zealand

2011

156

11

11

0

Myotonic Dystrophy Patient Registry for Germany and Switzerland

Germany and Switzerland

2012

243

16

246

3

UK Myotonic Dystrophy Patient Registry

UK

2012

429

45

16

0

China DM Registry

China

2012

61

8

0

0

Spanish Registry of neuromuscular diseases

Spain

2012

265

6

7

0

Egyptian neuromuscular registry

Egypt

2013

4

6

5

3

The Italian registry for Myotonic Dystrophy

Italy

2013

491

16

31

0

Myotonic Dystrophy Family Registry*

USA

2013

1051*

250*

NMiS

Sweden

2013

194

17

0

0

Registry of Muscular Dystrophy REMUDY

Japan

2014

554

45

1

0

Ukrainian registry of muscular dystrophies

Ukraine

Not provided

3

1

0

0

Australian Myotonic Dystrophy Registry***

Australia

Data collection has not yet begun

0

0

0

0

Totals

  

9156

1485

Total registered globally

  

10,641

   
  1. *Estimates based on literature review. **Recent numbers not available. ***Data collection not yet begun