COMPARISON OF RESPIRATORY MORTALITY IN THE PROFOUNDLY MENTALLY RETARDED AND IN THE LESS RETARDED*
- 1 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
- Vol. 23 (1) , 1-8
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2788.1979.tb00847.x
Abstract
Autopsy records of 600 profoundly retarded and 405 less retarded were examined for 31 yr at Pacific State Hospital [California, USA]. The profoundly retarded had more respiratory infections at autopsy and more deaths of such infections. Profound retardation was a particularly outstanding risk when in combination with epilepsy, inability to ambulate and developmental cranial anomalies. Non-infectious respiratory morbidity and mortality are more common in the less retarded, apparently because they live longer to develop these complications.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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