Conditions associated with huntington's disease at death: a case-control study
DJ Lanska, MJ Lanska, L Lavine… - Archives of …, 1988 - jamanetwork.com
• To identify conditions associated with reduced survival in patients with Huntington's
disease, we studied all 1978 US death certificates on which Huntington's disease (331.0 in
theInternational Classification of Diseases, eighth revision) was listed. For each of the 495
cases identified, two control deaths were matched by age, race, sex, county, and year of
death. Pneumonia, choking, nutritional deficiencies, and chronic skin ulcers were increased
in cases relative to controls.
disease, we studied all 1978 US death certificates on which Huntington's disease (331.0 in
theInternational Classification of Diseases, eighth revision) was listed. For each of the 495
cases identified, two control deaths were matched by age, race, sex, county, and year of
death. Pneumonia, choking, nutritional deficiencies, and chronic skin ulcers were increased
in cases relative to controls.