Table 1

 The annual incidence of SDH/E in the British Isles*

CategoryAgeIncidence/100 00095% CI
*Estimated combined population of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Republic of Ireland mid-1998: age 0–1, 731 630; age 1–2, 751 432; age 0–2, 1 483 062.
95% CI based on Poisson approximation.
All cases0–212.510.3 to 14.62
0–124.120.89 to 28.18
1–21.3
NAHI0–27.16.4 to 9.31
0–114.212.11 to 17.82
1–20.3