Muscular dystrophy leads to the loss of muscle, weakness, and involuntary muscle contractions.
The earlier the clinical signs of muscular dystrophy occur, the more rapid the progression and more widespread and disabling the deterioration is. When the disease becomes more severe, the person cannot battle infections, and death will usually result from respiratory disease. Cause Muscular dystrophy is usually inherited from a parent, but it can also appear in a person with no history of the disease. X-linked recessive is determined by the genes which are carried on one of the chromosomes that control the sex of the child. The result of this type of inheritance is that only boys are affected, and they inherit MD from their mothers, who are the carriers.