A neuromuscular disease, myasthenia gravis can affect anyone, but is likely to affect women in the 20-year-old to 40-year-old range and men in the 50-year-old to 70-year-old range. It is known as an autoimmune disease that causes a pattern of muscle with weakness with physical exertion followed by a strengthening of the muscles with periods […]
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Approximately 10 out of every 100,000 people have the neuromuscular disease known as myasthenia gravis, or MG. This is a chronic, autoimmune disease that causes muscle weakening that exacerbates, or gets worse, with activity. This disease is lessened with frequent periods of rest. Occurring in mostly women under the age of 40 and men over
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Myasthenia Gravis is a disease which affects neuromuscular transmission resulting in debilitating weakness of the voluntary muscle structure. At this time researchers believe that the thymus gland plays a key role in this disease. The thymus gland is known to play a role in the development of the immune system as an individual ages and
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