ALS Disease And Centers for Disease Control
ALS disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis sometimes called Lou Gehrig's disease is "a rapidly progressive, invariably fatal neurological disease that attacks the nerve cells responsible for controlling voluntary muscles," according to National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
The disease can result from a series of factors including free radicals, misfolded protein, aggregated aberrant protein, excitotoxicity, mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis.
An estimated 20,000 American live with ALS and about 5000 people in the United States are diagnosed with the disease each year.
CDC is short name of the Centers for Disease Control, CDC and Prevention has published a notice outlining steps to register individuals for listing in the new Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Registry, authorized under legislation signed in 2008. The motor neuron disorder also is known as ALS and Lou Gehrig's Disease.
According to the notice, "The purpose of the registry is to: (1) Better describe the incidence and prevalence of ALS in the United States; (2) examine appropriate factors, such as environmental and occupational, that might be associated with the disease; (3) better outline key demographic factors (such as age, race or ethnicity, gender, and family history of individuals who are diagnosed with the disease) associated with the disease; and (4) better examine the connection between ALS and other motor neuron disorders that can be confused with ALS, misdiagnosed as ALS, and in some cases progress to ALS. The registry will collect personal health information that may provide a basis for further scientific studies of potential risks for developing ALS."
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