D'ambrosioE+Huntington's+Disease

Huntington’s Disease  Huntington’s Disease is a brain complication that will affect some sort of function, such as thinking, talking, and movement. When you are 30-50 you will start to get the symptoms and who ever inherits the disease will eventually get it.
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Huntington's disease is inherited in dominant pattern, also it is autosomal. This means that everyone who obtains this disease will get it. If a parent has HD in there genes, than they will, or might have a 50% chance of passing it on to there kids.

When people get HD, will be hard to think, talk, walk, get dressed, and they will have problems swallowing. Most of the time people start to feel the symptoms when they are between the ages of 30-50, and the symptoms get worse over time.
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HD can be identified when the mother that is pregnant. She can have fluid that surrounds the fetus, or take a cell sample from the fetus. Also, when the child is born the doctors can do a series of neurological and psychological tests.

Unfortunally, medicines can slow down the effects of HD, but the medicines make the patient fell more comfortable.
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Right now doctors are using speech therapy and medications that ease the feelings of depression, anxiety, and to control involuntary movements.
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HD was named after Dr.George Huntington was first discovered and described the disease. Just within the U.S, 1 in every 30,000 people will have Huntington's Disease.
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