TABLE 1

Newly registered patients^# from across all of Japan and in Niigata Prefecture between 2006 and 2016

Distribution	Year
	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
All Japan
Patients^#	37	43	50	56	53	39	84	75	83	83	99
Population ×10⁶	128	128	128	127	128	127	127	127	127	127	127
Incidence per 10⁶ population	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.8
Niigata Prefecture
Patients^#	3	8	9	2	2	4	5	0	5	2	3
Population ×10⁶	2.4	2.4	2.4	2.4	2.4	2.4	2.3	2.3	2.3	2.3	2.3
Incidence per 10⁶ population	1.2	3.3	3.8	0.8	0.8	1.7	2.1	0.0	2.2	0.9	1.3

^#: newly registered patients were those whose serum was newly diagnosed as positive for granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor autoantibody.