Mental Retardation and Lifetime Events of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in Japan

Objective This study investigated the relationship between mental retardation and lifetime events in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Methods The data on mental retardation and ages of lifetime events (first walking, loss of ambulation, introductions of ventilator support and tube nu...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Internal Medicine 2008, Vol.47(13), pp.1207-1210
Hauptverfasser:	Mochizuki, Hitoshi, Miyatake, Satoko, Suzuki, Mikiya, Shigeyama, Toshiki, Yatabe, Kana, Ogata, Katsuhisa, Tamura, Takuhisa, Kawai, Mitsuru
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Child Developmental Disabilities - complications Disease Progression Duchenne muscular dystrophy Humans Intellectual Disability - complications Intelligence Tests Japan Kaplan-Meier Estimate mental retardation Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne - complications prognosis Retrospective Studies ventilator walking
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Zusammenfassung:	Objective This study investigated the relationship between mental retardation and lifetime events in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Methods The data on mental retardation and ages of lifetime events (first walking, loss of ambulation, introductions of ventilator support and tube nutrition and death) were collected retrospectively, and the relationships between the factors were analyzed. Patients Among 194 DMD patients admitted to our hospital between 1995 and 2007, 74 patients underwent evaluation of their intelligence quotient (IQ). Results Twenty-eight patients (38%) demonstrated mental retardation (IQ
ISSN:	0918-2918 1349-7235
DOI:	10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0907