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Most adolescents and adults with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) have normal sensory nerve function, even those with long-lasting disease, regardless of SMA type, a study in the Netherlands shows. Nerve ...

The researchers relied on population estimates from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, numbers that reflected the U.S. 2020 Census. They found that 66% (7,080,485 of 10,666,913) of adolescent ...

1 Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA 3 ...