Glycogen Storage Disease IV
Overview
What's glycogen storage disease IV?
Glycogen storage disease IV (GSD IV) is a genetic condition where your body can not properly build a complex sugar called glycogen. Typically, our bodies break down the food we eat into energy. Some of this energy gets used right away, while the rest gets stored as glycogen in our muscles and liver for later use. People with GSD IV have a genetic change which makes their glycogen an abnormal shape with many long branches. The body does not recognize this as normal glycogen, so the immune system attacks the abnormal glycogen, causing scars in the liver and muscles where the glycogen is stored. This causes the signs and symptoms of glycogen storage disease IV.
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What else is glycogen storage disease IV called?
How many people have glycogen storage disease IV?
Is glycogen storage disease IV usually abbreviated?
Are certain populations at risk for glycogen storage disease IV?
What else is glycogen storage disease IV called?
Are there other names for glycogen storage disease IV?
- Andersen disease
- Andersen's disease
- Andersen glycogenosis
- GSD IV
- Glycogen branching enzyme deficiency
- Glycogenosis, type IV
References
- GeneReviews Glycogen storage disease type IV
- https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/glycogen-storage-disease-type-iv#resources
How many people have glycogen storage disease IV?
Glycogen storage disease IV is very rare and affects approximately 1 in every 700,000 people throughout the world. There does not seem to be one particular group where this condition is more common than in others.
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Is glycogen storage disease IV usually abbreviated?
Glycogen storage disease IV is usually abbreviated as GSD IV or GSD 4.
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Are certain populations at risk for glycogen storage disease IV?
Glycogen storage disease IV affects people of all ethnicities and races and does not seem to be more common in any one group. Boys and girls are equally likely to have glycogen storage disease IV.
