Wendy Morton – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Wendy Morton on 2016-05-26.

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.

George Freeman

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.