Etiological Analysis of Mental Retardation in Children and Their Siblings in Wuchang, Wuhan |
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| Institution: | Faculty of Social Medicine School of PublicHealth Tongji Medical College HuazhongUniversity of Science and Technology Wuhan430030 China Faculty of Social Medicine School of PublicHealth Tongji Medical College HuazhongUniversity of Science and Technology Wuhan430030 China Public Health Bureau of Wuchang Wuhan China Hospital of Maternal and Child Health Care ofWuchang Wuhan China |
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| Abstract: | MENTAL RETARDATION (MR) is one of the mostfrequent and debilitating neurological handicaps inchildren and one of the few clinically important dis-orders for which the etiopathogenesis is still poorlyunderstood. MR is currently defined as a signifi-cant impairment of cognitive and adaptive functions,with onset before age 18. Recently, the prevalenceof MR in the Chinese population was estimated tobe 1.2%1 in comparison with 1%-10%2 in westerncountries. The prevalence of MR in a large popula-tion in Wuhang (97... |
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| Keywords: | mental retardation sibling risk factors etiology |
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