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Child Neuromuscular Disease in Southern Norway
Author(s) -
TANGSRUD S. E.,
HALVORSEN S.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1989.tb10894.x
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , duchenne muscular dystrophy , neuromuscular disease , sexing , pediatrics , cohort , cohort study , demography , disease , zoology , physics , sociology , optics , biology
. In a survey carried out to determine the incidence of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in South East Norway, 38 cases were ascertained among 149 975 live male births during the years 1968–1978. The overall incidence is 1:3917 in live male births (25.33×10 ‐5 ). This incidence is compared with those in other studies. There is an apparent drop in incidence in the last cohort studied, and the possible role of genetic councelling and antenatal sexing are discussed.