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Muscular Dystrophy

Muscular Dystrophy. By: Kristina Feeley. What is MD?. Muscular Dystrophy is a disease in which the muscles become weak over time. People with md have missing information in there genes because muscular dystrophy is genetic, people are born with this problem. . What are symptoms of md?.

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Muscular Dystrophy

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  1. Muscular Dystrophy By: Kristina Feeley

  2. What is MD? • Muscular Dystrophy is a disease in which the muscles become weak over time. • People with md have missing information in there genes • because muscular dystrophy is genetic, people are born with this problem.

  3. What are symptoms of md? symptoms A child with md • There are many types of muscular dystrophy. • Myotonic • Duchenne • Becker • But the most common ones are Duchenneand Becker. • With myotonic muscular dystrophy, you get muscle spasms, stiffening of the hands and overall weakness. • With Duchenne and Becker you experience clumsiness, frequent falling and a curvature of the spine. Also, a high level of creatine kinase.

  4. How common is it? • Muscular dystrophy effects 1 out of every 5,600 people in the united states between the ages 5 through 24. • Muscular dystrophymainly effects males. • Muscular dystrophy effects any race

  5. What are causes and treatment for muscular dystrophy? Causes Treatments • Since muscular dystrophy is genetic, the only real cause of it is “mutation” of the gene dystrophin, hence the name dystrophy. There is no treatment or prevention from md. There is physical and speech therapy, and various orthopedic devices. Everyone who has muscular dystrophy has it differently, so no two treatments are exactly the same.

  6. Interesting facts • There are 8 different types of muscular dystrophy! • Becker/duchenne, Limb-girdle, Facioscapulohumeral, Distal, Emery-dreifuss, Fukuyama, oculopharyngeal, and ophthalmoploegic • Vegetable oil has reversed the process of muscular dystrophy in an experiment with affected chickens. • Each year 20,000 children are born with muscular dystrophy worldwide!

  7. Sources • WebMD • CDC • www.health24.com

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