PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: Diagnosis (26 May 2016)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of Ehlers-Danios Syndrome have been diagnosed in each of the last five years.
Asked by:
Wendy Morton (Conservative)
Asked by:
Wendy Morton (Conservative)
Answer
These data are not held centrally by the Department.
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) is a complex group of heritable disorders of connective tissue with an estimated prevalence of one in 20,000. As EDS appears in a variety of forms rates of diagnosis can be underestimated.
Answered by:
George Freeman (Conservative)
7 June 2016
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