Myasthenia gravis
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 37 (12) , 1854
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.37.12.1854
Abstract
Clinical features and anti-acetylcholine receptor (AChR) titers were compared in Chinese (n = 258) and Caucasian (n = 258) myasthenia gravis populations. The former had more early onset and ocular cases, lacked the Caucasian late onset peak, and had fewer severe cases. The distribution of anti-AChR titers was broadly similar in the two populations, and their sera reacted equally well with AChR in both races. The significantly lower (x2 = 14.6; p < 0.001) median anti-AChR titer in the Chinese population can be accounted for by the higher frequency of ocular cases and lower frequency of moderate or severely affected cases.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: