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Premorbid weight, body mass, and varsity athletics in ALS

Scarmeas, N., Shih, T., Stern, Y., Ottman, R., Rowland, L. P.·2002·Neurology
DOI 10.1212/wnl.59.5.773
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  • ALS patients were approximately twice as likely as controls to have always been slim or to have been varsity athletes.

    “a previous study reported that ALS patients were approximately twice as likely as controls to have always been slim or to have been varsity athletes (19).”

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Scarmeas, N., Shih, T., Stern, Y., Ottman, R., & Rowland, L. P.
Affiliations
From the Department of Neurology (Drs. Scarmeas, Shih, Stern, Ottman, and Rowland) and the Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Center, Neurological Institute of Columbia–Presbyterian Medical Center; and the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center (Drs. Scarmeas, Stern, and Ottman), Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY.
Venue
Neurology
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Published
2002-09-10
Volume
59
Issue
5
Pages
773-775
ISSN
  • 0028-3878
  • 1526-632X
DOI
10.1212/wnl.59.5.773
Cited by
200
References
1
Language
en

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