Essay On Muscle Dystrophy

States of Muscle Dystrophy and relation to Dystrophin Muscle dystrophy branches into many different kinds of muscle disease including myositis, multiple sclerosis and fibromyalgia. What makes it so important is that muscle dystrophy can be found in patients as young as infants and as old as adults. Also, some types of muscle dystrophy can be progressively disabling. Muscle diseases are present in infants and children because many of the diseases are hereditary. For example, Duchenne muscular dystrophy is both an inherited disease and progressively disabling muscle disease. A patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a progressive disease that causes muscle weakness, lack a protein called dystrophin. In a healthy individual the cytoskeletal protein,
There are reports that range from one in five thousand males that are affected from Muscle Dystrophy Association’s report and one in every three thousand males from Right Diagnosis’s reports sourced from Genes and Diseases by the National Center for Biotechnology. Disregarding the range of error for these statistics, both are very close in range and does not overshadow the fact that Duchenne muscle dystrophy is the most common type of muscle disease. According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, “The prevalence of DBMD among Non-Hispanic blacks was lower than the prevalence among Hispanics and Non-Hispanic whites” (CDC, 2016). Previously stated, females do not get physically affected by Duchenne muscle dystrophy, however in very rare cases women do show mild symptoms of the disease. Because it is not easy to test if females are carriers of the mutated gene, there are little to no stats on how many females actually carry the gene mutation. However, there are stats from a Korean institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, reporting that only eight percent of female carriers actually display some symptoms of muscle weakness (Song TJ,