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Increased life expectancy in people with untreated phenylketonuria
Author(s) -
Jancar J.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2788.1998.00067.x
Subject(s) - life expectancy , medicine , pediatrics , demography , gerontology , intellectual disability , psychiatry , population , environmental health , sociology
The records of 17 people with intellectual disability and untreated phenylketonuria (12 females and five males), who were resident in the Stoke Park Group of Hospitals, Bristol, England, 25 years ago, were reexamined for life expectancy. Six subjects had died (five females and one male). The oldest deceased female was 69 years of age. The average age at death was 55.8 years. Eleven subjects were still alive (seven females and four males). The oldest living male was 79 years of age. The average age of the survivors was 55.7 years.