Muscular dystrophy can appear in infancy up to middle age or later, and its form and severity are determined in part by the age at which it occurs. Some types of muscular dystrophy typically ...

Only males can get certain types of muscular dystrophy because of how the disease is inherited. Children who are born with muscular dystrophy usually develop normally for the first few years of life.

Muscular Dystrophy (MD) is a genetic condition causing progressive muscle weakness and complications in vital organs. Early ...

People with myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), the most common adult-onset form of muscular dystrophy, progressively lose ...

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Becker Muscular Dystrophy [BMD] is a type of disorder characterized as progressive muscle weakness or muscle degeneration just like Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy [DMD]. How it is different though is ...

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In the case of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, muscle deterioration is progressive and ... “Even with these four changes, the generated protein is very similar in function to the wild type, which is ...

Apart from the nine major types of muscular dystrophy listed above, several MD-like conditions have also been identified. Normal intellectual, behavioral, bowel and sexual function is noticed in ...