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Metabolic disease in mental retardation: a study in Texas
Birth Defects Original Article Series
|May 1, 1971
Abstract:
Reported are the results of a study of patients admitted to the State Schools for the Mentally Retarded in Texas, over a two-year period from 1968-1970. Of 2029 cases, 185 were found on a detection battery screening to have possible metabolic disease. The report summarizes the findings on 93 cases studied in the metabolic ward at the Texas Research Institute.