The Life Expectancy of Profoundly Handicapped People with Mental Retardation
- 30 August 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 323 (9) , 584-589
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199008303230906
Abstract
The life expectancy of people with mental retardation is shorter than that of the general population. Exact estimates of the length of survival for mentally retarded persons at especially high risk are not available, however.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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