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Where are the muscles that degenerate going?

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why does dmd affect skeletal muscles first

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Are the muscles in their mouths also affected?

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why does dmd affect some of the largest muscle groups

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How are smooth muscles the only types that do not get effected? Is there some sort anatomical difference between them and the affected muscles?

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Is there different levels of severity.

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Why are the smooth muscles unaffected?

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Is it painful?

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what determines the severity of the disease

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How many muscles does the disorder affect?

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Why isn't the average life span longer than thirty years?

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Why are some limbs weaker than others?

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Why would psuedohypertrophy affect the child's calves? Is scar tissue some sort of by-product of DMD?

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What happens to a muscle's structure when it weakens?

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Is therapy actually helping a child?

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Where did it originally come from

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How can you prevent from getting it?

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why does this happen to the muscles is it just mutation or other stuff

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can you lose it naturally

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what kind of treatment does it require?

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can females know if they have it?

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why does it start in the hip region?

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Does the heart eventually stop functioning due to the disorder?

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why does it include the x chromosomes

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Will there be a possible cure in the future?

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How does the first person in a family get DMD?

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Why does it occur more in men than women ?

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How likely is it that girls can get DMD?

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How does the DMD diseased muscle compare to a non-diseased muscle?

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Why are some cases worse than others?

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What medicines can help the symptoms?

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Why do boys get DMD more often than girls?

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How likely is it for someone to get DMD?

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What genetic mutation actually causes this disease?

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Can girls get DMD?

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Is it life long?

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Is it a degenerative muscle disorder?

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Why is Duchenne progressive instead of taking as long as the muscle cells reproduce?