Guest guest Posted December 4, 1998 Report Share Posted December 4, 1998 Hi Sheryl, Here is some more food for thought. I was talking to Mel from Salt Lake City today on the phone and we were talking about Utah Stats. Dementia is a symptom, so how can a person die from it. The doctors don't know what the disease is when they put this down on the death certificate so those stats could go up even more but we will never find out. Robin ---------- > From: STrai6098@... > To: CJDVOICE (AT) ONELIST (DOT) COM > Subject: VT Statistics > Date: Friday, December 04, 1998 4:18 PM > > From: STrai6098@... > > Just out of curiosity, I called the VT Dept of Health for some CJD statistics. > Mike, the man I spoke with, was very helpful and called me back within 15 > minutes. According to their records, there have been 13 recorded deaths by > CJD since 1980, 7 of which occured between 1990 and 1997. There have been 481 > deaths recorded as due to Alzheimers between 1990 & 1997, and 293 from other > forms of presenile dementia. During this time frame, there has only been a > population of around 560,00 in the entire state. I believe that as of this > year 580,000 of us live here. If even 5% of Alzheimers deaths were > misdiagnosed CJD, that raises the percentage of total CJD deaths within a > small population dramatically, doesn't it? > > Food for thought.... > > Sheryl > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 5, 1998 Report Share Posted December 5, 1998 My mother in law died November 18 in Florida. The cause of death was listed as " cardiac arrest " and cardio-pulmonary disease--no mention of CJD or dementia or anything else!!! No wonder they think its a rare disease!!!!! Vicki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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