1. Body mass index : Information
A good way to determine if your weight is healthy for your height is to calculate your body mass index (BMI). Being overweight puts strain on your heart and can lead to serious health problems. These problems include:
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2. Hurler syndrome
Hurler syndrome is a disorder that results when cells cannot break down two by-products of normal metabolism. These byproducts, dermatan sulfate and heparan sulfate, build up and disrupt normal cell function, leading to severe disease. The disease...
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Scenario : Ellen is a 48 year old professional woman who lives and works in Hartford, Connecticut. She has four adult children and two grandchildren. She also has two aging parents who live nearby and who, though they have been active all their li...
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4. Hurler's Syndrome and Transplant -- patient information
Hurler's syndrome is an inherited metabolic storage disorder that can cause severe damage to the brain, heart, bones and other organs and tissues.
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5. Hurler syndrome
Hurler syndrome is a rare, inherited disease of metabolism in which a person cannot break down long chains of sugar molecules called glycosaminoglycans (formerly called mucopolysaccharides).
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6. Hurler syndrome
A boy with a mutation in a -L-iduronidase, which causes Hurler syndrome. Note his coarse facial features, crouched stance, thickened digits, and protuberant abdomen.
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7. MPS I (Hurler, Hurler-Scheie, Scheie syndrome)
MPS I, along with six other MPS diseases is a mucopolysaccharide disease that is relentlessly progressive and potentially fatal. MPS I has also been called Hurler, Hurler-Scheie and Scheie syndrome. Hurler takes its name from Gertrude Hurler, the ...
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8. Hurler-Scheie Syndrome (MPS I)
A booklet in pdf format on MPSI, discussing the cause, inheritance, prenatal diagnosis, clinical problems (divided by body system), general treatment and management and specific treatment of MPSI. Click on MPSI to download booklet.
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The Zebrafish Gene Collection (ZGC) is an NIH initiative that supports the production of cDNA libraries, clones and sequences to provide a complete set of full-length (open reading frame) sequences and cDNA clones of expressed genes for zebrafish....
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The Xenopus Gene Collection (XGC) is an NIH initiative that supports the production of cDNA libraries, clones and 5'/3' sequences to provide a set of full-length (open reading frame) sequences and cDNA clones of expressed genes for Xenopus laevis ...
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