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Table 1 Distribution of participants across different neuromuscular diseases

From: The most bothersome symptoms in neuromuscular diseases: the ERN EURO NMD Survey

Neuromuscular Disease

N = 11091

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and related neuropathies (HNNP, HSAN, dHMN)

295 (26.6%)

Mitochondrial Diseases

216 (19.5%)

Other

111 (10%)

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)

70 (6.3%)

Other Muscular Dystrophies (excluding Duchenne, Becker, FSHD, myotonic dystrophies)

65 (5.9%)

Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD)

62 (5.6%)

Duchenne or Becker Muscular Dystrophy

48 (4.3%)

Myotonic Dystrophies

46 (4.1%)

Myasthenia gravis

41 (3.7%)

Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies

31 (2.8%)

Congenital Myopathies and Congenital muscular dystrophies

22 (2%)

Small Fiber Neuropathies

18 (1.6%)

Metabolic Myopathies

17 (1.5%)

Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes

14 (1.3%)

Inflammatory and Dysimmune Neuropathies

14 (1.3%)

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and other motor neuron diseases (excluding SMA)

10 (0.9%)

Idiopathic Neuropathies

10 (0.9%)

‘I do not know the name of my disease’

8 (0.7%)

Myofibrillar Myopathies

6 (0.5%)

Neuropathies associated with hematological disease and monoclonal gammopathy (MGUS, POEMS, etc.)

4 (0.4%)

Skeletal Muscle Channelopathies

1 (0.1%)

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