Rare diseases mortality in Colombia, 2008-2013

• Published in: Biomédica
• Main Authors: Julio César Martinez, Sandra Patricia Misnaza
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud 2018
• Subjects: registros de mortalidad; enfermedades raras; leucemia linfoide; esclerosis múltiple; salud pública; Colombia; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Barré
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v38i0.3876; https://doaj.org/article/5e69a69a3d3942399fc825350b8737d1

Introduction: Rare diseases are characterized by their low prevalence, often of genetic origin, degenerative and life threatening. Objective: To describe mortality by orphan diseases and to analyze its trends in Colombia from 2008 to 2013. Materials and methods: We conducted a descriptive study to a...