Originally posted by Dingo
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Reading comprehension for the loss.
Please re-read. Rare, as it is defined by the NIH is not a ratio. You're math is incorrect. Doing math here is incorrect. A rare disease means that less than 200,000 total people in the US have the disease.
As of July of 2009, there are 307,006,550 people in the US. If the disease prevalence is less than 200,000 of that TOTAL population, it's rare. It's not the total population divided by 200,000, that's what we call a ratio. Which is not what rare is.
Wow again. Thank god he's ignoring me. Normally discourse is very good. But wow, when the reading comprehension is so amazingly low...
BTW, hey Linda Good to see you again!!!
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