BODY WEIGHT AND DIETARY FACTORS IN HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE PATIENTS COMPARED WITH MATCHED CONTROLS
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 1 (8) , 407-409
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1981.tb135681.x
Abstract
A longitudinal study using medical records has confirmed that, even when eating high energy diets, loss of body weight is characteristic of Huntington's disease patients in comparison with a group of...Keywords
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