ALS survival may be cut short by living in disadvantaged communities
Living in a disadvantaged community may decrease the length of time a person can survive with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ...
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Neighborhood disadvantage linked to shorter survival time in ALS
Neighborhood disadvantage, or living in a poorer region, was linked to significantly shorter survival time for ALS patients ...
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Genetic risk factors for sporadic ALS
Numerous environmental and genetic factors have been implicated in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); however, a detailed understanding of the genetic component of the disease has not ...
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Living in Disadvantaged Areas May Shorten ALS Survival
Living in a disadvantaged community may decrease the length of time a person can survive with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, by over 30%, a ...
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Factors Predicting One-year Mortality in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients – Data From a Population-based Registry
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a severe neurodegenerative disease with a progressive decline of upper and lower motor neurons leading to disability and death. Survival in ALS is highly ...
National registry for ALS launched
In a groundbreaking step to learn more about Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) ...
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Factors Predicting One-year Mortality in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients – Data From a Population-based Registry
The population-based prospective approach is representative of the overall ALS population. Thus data on survival as well as the analysis of prognostic factors are based on all ALS cases and are ...