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Comparative Study
. 1979 Mar;23(1):1-7.
doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1979.tb00847.x.

Comparison of respiratory mortality in the profoundly mentally retarded and in the less retarded

R H Chaney, R K Eyman, C R Miller
Comparative Study

Comparison of respiratory mortality in the profoundly mentally retarded and in the less retarded

R H Chaney et al. J Ment Defic Res. 1979 Mar.

Abstract

Autopsy records of 600 profoundly retarded and 405 less retarded were examined for a thirty-one-year period at Pacific State Hospital. The profoundly retarded were found to have more respiratory infections at autopsy, and more deaths of such infections. Profound retardation was a particularly outstanding risk when in combination with epilepsy, inability to ambulate, and developmental cranial anomalies. Non-infectious respiratory morbidity and mortality are more common in the less retarded, apparently because of their living longer to develop these complications.

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