Mortality and causes of death in persons with Down syndrome in California

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 171-176

  Day, Steven M ^a   Strauss, David J ^a   Shavelle, Robert M ^a   Reynolds, Robert J ^a  

^a Life Expectancy Project   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HISPANIC; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED STATES;

ABNORMALITIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOWN SYNDROME; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 14044254171     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162205000319     Document Type: Article

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