White Americans live longer with muscular dystrophy, black people

A new study shows that white men, and children more with not have muscular dystrophy due to technological advances in recent years, but life extended the lives of African-American men and children with muscular dystrophy with the same speed. Research is published in output of 14 September 2010, Neurology ®, the American Academy of Neurology.

Muscular dystrophy is a muscle group of hereditary diseases that often lead to premature death due to respiratory or heart failure.

"The author"More research is needed to the causes of the difference between white and black with muscular dystrophy to determine which can be addressed,"says study Aileen Kenneson, PhD, who the while conducted, for the control and prevention centres.""Possible factors differences in the way of muscular dystrophy, genetic and environmental factors other conditions of health such as high blood pressure, individual social and economic factors or access to and use of treatment options could".

The study also found that there are on average 12 years longer than Afro-American women with the disease live in white women with muscular dystrophy.

Study analyzes researchers records from 18,315 who died was associated with muscular dystrophy in the USA since 1986 when was it with 2005.This period, support and many advances in respiratory care drugs and heart were developed and applied to those people with muscular dystrophy.

The median age increases year annual 1.09 of white men, compared the afroamericanos.Entre deceased 0.25 for men, men not weakening muscular dystrophy associated with heart, cardiomyopathy, age average increased death 1.3 years annually of white men, American men compared with 0.3 years annually for African called.

Nicte Mejía, the General Hospital of Massachusetts and a member of the American Academy of Neurology, wrote an editorial accompanying the article, said, "injustices in the system of health - care delivery and care choices in the race for access - seems to racial differences the most likely explanation for this. Décadas research show, the African American patients less access to health care and lower results have as patients blancos.Este reminds study to limit us that we must work together to minimize social barriers and provide excellent care for all patients."

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