RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Moyamoya disease in Washington State and California
JF Neurology
JO Neurology
FD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
SP 956
OP 958
DO 10.1212/01.wnl.0000176066.33797.82
VO 65
IS 6
A1 Uchino, Ken
A1 Johnston, S. Claiborne
A1 Becker, Kyra J.
A1 Tirschwell, David L.
YR 2005
UL http://n.neurology.org/content/65/6/956.abstract
AB The authors identified 298 diagnoses of moyamoya in California and Washington from hospital discharge databases during the period 1987 to 1998. The incidence was 0.086/100,000 persons. The ethnicity-specific incidence rate ratios compared to whites were 4.6 (95% CI: 3.4 to 6.3) for Asian Americans, 2.2 (95% CI: 1.3 to 2.4) for African Americans, and 0.5 (95% CI: 0.3 to 0.8) for Hispanics. The incidence of moyamoya in Washington and California was lower than reported in Japan, but the rate among U.S. Asians is similar.