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COMPARISON OF RESPIRATORY MORTALITY IN THE PROFOUNDLY MENTALLY RETARDED AND IN THE LESS RETARDED*
Author(s) -
CHANEY R. H.,
EYMAN R. K.,
MILLER C. R.
Publication year - 1979
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 - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1979.tb00847.x
Subject(s) - miller , state hospital , mentally retarded , general hospital , state (computer science) , gerontology , medicine , library science , psychology , family medicine , psychiatry , developmental psychology , ecology , algorithm , computer science , biology
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.