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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mayo Clin Proc. 2019 Jan 31;94(3):465–471. doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2018.08.041

Table 3.

Epidemiology Studies in AL amyloidosis

Reference Location Design Age/ gender Yearly incidence (per 100,000 person-years)
Current study Olmsted county 1990–2015: Population-based study; primarily mass spectrometry typing Median age: 76 years; males 54% 1.2 (95%CI 0.8, 1.6)a
Duhamel9 Limosin region, France 2012 to 2016: Population-based study; no mention of amyloid typing methodology Median age, 72.5 years; 70% men 1.25 (95% CI, 0.56−1.94)b
Quock10 USA 2007 to 2015: US claims data Mean age 64 years; 54% male 1.08 −1.52a
Pinney6 England 2008: Extrapolated through death certificates and referral rates to and amyloidosis types at the NAC Peaked at age 60–69; 0.3c
Hemminki7 Sweden 2001 to 2018: Extrapolated through myeloma statistics and amyloid hospital discharge diagnoses No data 0.32c
Aguirre8 Argentina 2006 to 2015: Extrapolated through registrants in the Medical Care Program in Buenos Aires No data 0.61 (95% CI, 0.26−0.97a,d

NAC, National Amyloidosis Centre

a

Age and sex adjusted

b

Crude estimate

c

Adjusted for age only

d

Adjusted to the Buenos Aires Census (2010 census)