Re:Auto-brewery syndrome in a 50-year-old woman
by belmarca on Monday June 03, 2024 @09:58AM
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And "outliers" aren't necessarily exotic. Idiopathic disease isn't rare and difficult to diagnose.
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Re:Auto-brewery syndrome in a 50-year-old woman
by Gibbon1 on Monday June 03, 2024 @04:48PM
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The problem is the fat tail of rare conditions is really wide because their are thousands of them.
Say there are 500 rare conditions with a rate of 2 per 100k per year. That means one out of 100 patients will develop one of those 500 in a given year.