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Understanding Causes of Mortality Among Infants With Down Syndrome

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TN-Vanderbilt University, UCEDD/LEND

Fiscal Year:

2011

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Product Description:

News story published in the Reporter [Vanderbilt Medical Center weekly newspaper] and on the website Research News @ Vanderbilt, linked on the VKC website. Describes findings reported in the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. They found that infants with Down syndrome experience high rates of mortality at three distinct times in the first year, related to specific, different causes of death.

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Electronic Products

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Consumers/Families, Professionals, Students

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Electronic (disc, CD, 508 compliant web posting)

To Obtain Copies (URL or Email):

http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/04/understanding-mortality-down-syndrome/

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