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Do a lot of people get polycythemia vera?
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Not common: According to one study, about 65,000 people in the US have this condition, or about 22 out of every 100,000 people. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18181200.
Answered 10/3/2016
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