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Prader-Willi syndrome

Background

Prader-Willi: cryptorchidism- shortness of stature- obesity- subnormal mentality; Prader-Willi Labhart

Prader-Willi syndrome is characterised by two phases. At birth and in infancy, hypotonia, sleepiness and feeding difficulties are usually present. Thereafter, hypotonia becomes less, feeding difficulties stop and hyperphagia (over eating) begins, usually between the ages of two to four.

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Medical text written November 1991 by Contact a Family and approved November 1991 by Professor M Patton, Professor of Medical Genetics, St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK, and Dr J E Wraith, Consultant Paediatrician, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK. Psychological and behavioural characteristics written November 1998 by Dr O Udwin, Consultant Clinical Child Psychologist, Society for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes. Medical text last updated January 2010 by Dr J Whittington, Senior Research Associate, Section of Developmental Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

 

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