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Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder subset in which people who typically have normal mental health throughout most of the year exhibit depressive symptoms at the same time each year. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is commonly, but not always, associated with the reductions or increases in total daily sunlight hours that occur during the winter ...
Sudden death of a young person can be caused by heart disease (including cardiomyopathy, congenital heart disease, myocarditis, genetic connective tissue disorders) or conduction disease (WPW syndrome, etc.), medication-related causes or other causes. [13]
The average lifespan after the onset of symptoms in patients with MSA is 6–10 years. [4] Approximately 60% of patients require a wheelchair within five years of onset of the motor symptoms, and few patients survive beyond 12 years. [4] The disease progresses without remission at a variable rate.
Women in the United States can expect to live nearly six years longer than men, as disparities in deaths from Covid-19 and drug overdoses drive the life expectancy gap to the widest it’s been in ...
Hoyeraal–Hreidasson syndrome [2] is a very rare multisystem X-linked recessive disorder characterized by excessively short telomeres and is considered a severe form of dyskeratosis congenita. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Being an X-linked disorder, Hoyeraal–Hreidasson syndrome primarily affects males.
This is the most common form of ADSLD. Symptoms that become apparent in the first months of life include seizures, microcephaly and severe psychomotor retardation and are purely neurological. [5] Some patients display axial hypotonia, peripheral hypertonia and normal tendon reflexes.
The disease of the hypochondriac consists in this: that certain bodily sensations do not so much indicate a really existing disease in the body as rather merely excite apprehensions of its existence: and human nature is so constituted – a trait which the animal lacks – that it is able to strengthen or make permanent local impressions simply ...
Reduced life expectancy Maroteaux–Lamy syndrome , or Mucopolysaccharidosis Type VI (MPS-VI) , is an inherited disease caused by a deficiency in the enzyme arylsulfatase B (ARSB). [ 3 ] ASRB is responsible for the breakdown of large sugar molecules called glycosaminoglycans (GAGs, also known as mucopolysaccharides).