The prevalence investigation of Bell's palsy in China
- VernacularTitle:中国Bell麻痹流行病学调查
- Author:
Liang CHEN
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Journal of Clinical Neurology
1988;0(02):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
We investigated the prevalence of Bell's palsy in mainland of china acording to standard scale. 3, 869,162 persons were to be investigated and we found 1926 persons suffered from Bell's palsy; the prevalence rate was 49.77 per a hundred thousand and the incidence rate (in the year of 1986) was 16.28 per a hundred thousand. Characterized by wide spread appearance there was a high prevalence between east longitude 110?～120? and north latitude 25?～45?; the incidence in the area north of the Yangzhi river was higher than that south of the river. The high incidence were found in April, May, July and August. There was no difference between both sexes and the lowest incidonie was in children below 10 years old.
