Increasing prevalence 2015-2019 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Sardinia, Italy.
Maria Ida PateriSilvy PilottoGiuseppe BorgheroFrancesca PiliVincenzo PierriTommaso ErcoliAngelo Fabio GiganteAntonella MuroniGiovanni DefazioPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2023)
We provided the highest prevalence rate to date reported in the worldwide literature, and also showed a non-significant raising ALS prevalence in the Sardinian population over a quinquennium. The trend in raising ALS prevalence was likely due to extended survival due to invasive interventions.