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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2016 Jun 8;9:5–10. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2016.05.018

Table 5.

Estimated prevalence of pediatric MS based on the US census data.

Number of MS patients admitted to hospitals by age group and gender between 2004–2013
Age Gender
Female
Male Total
<11 75 69 144
11–15 311 161 472
>5 368 140 508
Total 754 370 1124
Total population estimated by the US census by age group and gender between 20042013
Age Gender
Female
Male Total
<11 198,982,160 207,922,273 406,904,433
11–15 89,884,770 94,283,467 184,168,237
>15 56,055,477 59,026,147 115,081,626
Total 344,922,409 361,231,887 706,154,296
Estimated MS prevalence rate per 100,000 persons by age group and gender
Age Gender
Female
Male Total
<11 0.038 0.033 0.035
11–15 0.346 0.171 0.256
>15 0.656 0.237 0.441
Total 0.219 0.102 0.159