Conditions Associated With Huntington's Disease at Death
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology
- Vol. 45 (8) , 878-880
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1988.00520320068017
Abstract
• To identify conditions associated with reduced survival in patients with Huntington's disease, we studied all 1978 US death certificates on which Huntington's disease (331.0 in the International Classification of Diseases, eighth revision) was listed. For each of the 495 cases identified, two control deaths were matched by age, race, sex, county, and year of death. Pneumonia, choking, nutritional deficiencies, and chronic skin ulcers were increased in cases relative to controls.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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