TWENTY-ONE PKU OUT OF 358767 NEWBORNS——THE INCIDENCE OF PKU IN SHANGHAI,CHINA

摘要

A study on incidence of phenylketonuria (PKU) by neonatal screening was done in Shanghai. Twenty-one cases of PKU out of 358767 newborns screened during 7 years were comfirmed with the incidence of about 1/17000. This incidence is very comparable with that in the western countries but much higher than that in Japan.