Metabolic disease in mental retardation: a study in Texas
Farrell, G.; Johnson, R.; Fabre, L.; Farmer, R.; Pellizzari, E.; Stephenson, M.
Birth Defects Original Article Series 7(6): 94-97
1971
ISSN/ISBN: 0547-6844 PMID: 5173196 Document Number: 38858
Reported are the results of a study of patients admitted to the State Schools for the Mentally Retarded in Texas, over a two-year period from 1968-1970. Of 2029 cases, 185 were found on a detection battery screening to have possible metabolic disease. The report summarizes the findings on 93 cases studied in the metabolic ward at the Texas Research Institute.