Patients with myotonic dystrophy have smaller hearts, and lower systolic and diastolic blood pressures and pulse rates. They have impaired autonomic reflexes, measured by orthostatic, Valsalva ...

Myotonic dystrophy type 1 incurs high healthcare costs, driven by age and comorbidities like cardiac and respiratory issues. Early detection and integrated management of multisystemic ...

Gottfried, who famously voiced Iago in Disney's 1992 classic Aladdin, had been dealing with recurrent ventricular tachycardia due to myotonic dystrophy type II, his longtime friend and publicist ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) significantly impacts the heart, with cardiac issues affecting 50% of patients. A study tested restoring heart function by ...

This work was funded by Muscular Dystrophy Association (grant #276796), National Institutes of Health (NIH) (grants R01HL147020, R01AR060733, R01AR082852, R01GM147365, R01HL132840 and U42OD026645 ...

In recent years, a growing understanding of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1)—an often fatal, devastating, rare neuromuscular disorder that causes muscle weakness and other life-limiting ...