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Volume 28, Number 9—September 2022
Dispatch

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Incidence, South Korea, 2001–2019

Yong-Chan Kim and Byung-Hoon JeongComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea

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Table

Annual cases and incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Korea, 2001–2019

Year Patients, no. (%) Sex, no. (%)
p value Subtypes, no. (%)
Total population Incidence‡
M F Sporadic Iatrogenic† Variant Familial
2001 5 (0.86) 2 (40) 3 (60) 0.7498 5 (100) 0 0 0 47,370,164 0.11
2002 9 (1.55) 5 (55.56) 4 (44.44) 0.6162 9 (100) 0 0 0 47,644,736 0.19
2003 19 (3.28) 7 (36.84) 12 (63.16) 0.3756 19 (100) 0 0 0 47,892,330 0.40
2004 13 (2.25) 8 (61.54) 5 (38.46) 0.3042 12 (92.31) 0 0 1 (7.69) 48,082,519 0.27
2005 15 (2.59) 7 (46.67) 8 (53.33) 0.9705 14 (93.33) 0 0 1 (6.67) 48,184,561 0.31
2006 19 (3.28) 11 (57.89) 8 (42.11) 0.3561 19 (100) 0 0 0 48,438,292 0.39
2007 18 (3.11) 13 (72.22) 5 (27.78) 0.0360 18 (100) 0 0 0 48,683,638 0.37
2008 28 (4.84) 15 (53.57) 13 (46.43) 0.5063 25 (89.29) 0 0 3 (10.71) 49,054,708 0.57
2009 30 (5.18) 13 (43.33) 17 (56.67) 0.6829 29 (96.67) 0 0 1 (3.33) 49,307,835 0.61
2010 29 (5.01) 14 (48.28) 15 (51.72) 0.9057 28 (96.55) 1 (3.45) 0 0 49,554,112 0.59
2011 29 (5.01) 15 (51.72) 14 (48.28) 0.6302 26 (89.66) 0 0 3 (10.34) 49,936,638 0.58
2012 45 (7.77) 23 (51.11) 22 (48.89) 0.6083 42 (93.33) 0 0 3 (6.67) 50,199,853 0.90
2013 34 (5.87) 13 (38.24) 21 (61.76) 0.3112 31 (91.18) 0 0 3 (8.82) 50,428,893 0.67
2014 65 (11.23) 31 (47.69) 34 (52.31) 0.9338 62 (95.38) 0 0 3 (4.62) 50,746,659 1.28
2015 33 (5.70) 17 (51.52) 16 (48.48) 0.6252 33 (100) 0 0 0 51,014,947 0.65
2016 43 (7.43) 16 (37.21) 27 (62.79) 0.2073 173 (92.02)§ 0 0 15 (7.98) 51,217,803 0.84
2017 38 (6.56) 13 (34.21) 25 (65.79) 0.1213 51,361,911 0.74
2018 54 (9.33) 26 (48.15) 28 (51.85) 0.8883 51,606,633 1.05
2019 53 (9.15) 24 (45.28) 29 (54.72) 0.7943 51,709,098 1.02
Total 579 (100) 273 (47.15) 306 (52.85) 545 (94.13) 1 (0.17) 0 33 (5.70)

*CJD includes possible, probable, and definite CJD diagnoses. Bold text indicates statistical significance (p<0.05). CJD, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; –, not applicable. †The source of transmission for the iatrogenic CJD case is dura mater graft. ‡Cases per million population §Reported cases and subtypes of CJD in South Korea, 2016–2019.

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