Communicable illnesses in the mentally retarded and nonretarded populations of three Michigan counties.
| Autor: | Zonia SC, Goff GA |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | American journal of mental deficiency [Am J Ment Defic] 1986 Jan; Vol. 90 (4), pp. 453-6. |
| Abstrakt: | Fourteen categories of communicable diseases reported on a weekly basis to state public health officials were considered. Mentally retarded persons living in a three-county area were compared with the counties' general population over a 4-year period. Results indicated that retarded persons had a significantly higher prevalence rate of 6 of the 14 communicable diseases and a higher probability rate for 3 of the diseases studied than did the general population. The few illnesses that the retarded population did contract, however, occurred at a much higher rate than that of the nonretarded population. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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