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Comparison of respiratory mortality in the profoundly mentally retarded and in the less retarded.
- Source :
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Journal of mental deficiency research [J Ment Defic Res] 1979 Mar; Vol. 23 (1), pp. 1-7. - Publication Year :
- 1979
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Abstract
- Autopsy records of 600 profoundly retarded and 405 less retarded were examined for a thirty-one-year period at Pacific State Hospital. The profoundly retarded were found to have 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 of their living longer to develop these complications.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Bronchopneumonia complications
Child
Child, Preschool
Down Syndrome complications
Epilepsy complications
Female
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Intellectual Disability mortality
Intelligence
Lung Diseases mortality
Male
Motor Activity
Skull abnormalities
Intellectual Disability complications
Lung Diseases complications
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0022-264X
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of mental deficiency research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 158091
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2788.1979.tb00847.x