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Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
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2003 Sep; 34(3): 659-61
Artigo
em Inglês
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-31862
RESUMO
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) occurred on the island of Guam with unusually high incidence rates for many years but began to disappear with the island's westernization after WW II. The authors document these changes and suggest that they support a hypothesis that cultural changes could be responsible for both the virtual disappearance of this chronic degenerative neurologic disease as well as a concurrent surge in the prevalence of diabetes.