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Table 2 Prevalence of Myasthenia gravis by different continents

From: Global prevalence of myasthenia gravis and the effectiveness of common drugs in its treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Continents

Number of articles

Sample size

I2

Begg and mazumdar rank correlation test

Prevalence per 100,000

Asia

15

603,327,498

91.8

0.101

10.9 (95% CI 6.4–17.9)

Europe

47

1,383,299,257

79.2

0.102

10 (95% CI 8.2–12.2)

America

28

195,218,499

87.9

0.110

19 (95% CI 15–23.8)

Africa

2

59,303

79.03

–

15.2 (95% CI 6.9–30.2)