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text: Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD)
text: 2 December 2010 - US biopharmaceutical company PTC Therapeutics Inc said yesterday that data published in the December issue of the medical journal Muscle and Nerve confirm the utility of six-minute walk distance (6MWD) as a clinically meaningful endpoint in dystrophinopathy, a disease continuum comprising Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DBMD).
text: Researchers from the Muscular Dystrophy Surveillance, Tracking and Research Network (MD STARnet) have just published in Pediatrics the first population-based data on prevalence of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies, known as DBMD, by race/ethnicity in the United States.
text: Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD)
text: · Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD)
text: Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD)
text: Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD)
text: Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD)
text: The other three diseases that belong to this group are Becker Muscular dystrophy (BMD, a mild form of DMD); an intermediate clinical presentation between DMD and BMD; and DMD-associated dilated cardiomyopathy (heart-disease) with little or no clinical skeletal, or voluntary, muscle disease.
text: Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) is a similar to DMD, but with onset usually in the teens or early adulthood.
text: Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) is one of nine types of muscular dystrophies, a group of genetic, degenerative diseases primarily affecting voluntary muscles.
text: The most well known of the muscular dystrophies is Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), followed by Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD).
text: 1 Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) is similar to DMD, but has later onset and slower, more variable progression of symptoms.
text: The other three diseases that belong to this group are Becker Muscular dystrophy (BMD, a mild form of DMD); an intermediate clinical presentation between DMD and BMD; and DMD-associated dilated cardiomyopathy (heart-disease) with little or no clinical skeletal, or voluntary, muscle disease.
text: Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) is a similar to DMD, but with onset usually in the teens or early adulthood.
text: Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) also demonstrates the following:
text: Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD)
text: The muscular dystrophies associated with defects in dystrophin range greatly from the very severe Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) to the far milder Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD).
text: The diagnosis of Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) may vary greatly.
text: Commercial genetic tests that can be used to diagnose a particular type of MD, known as direct genetic testing, are only available for some of the more common types of the disease, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), and myotonic dystrophy (DM).
text: Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), initially described by Becker and Kiener in 1955, is an inherited disease with a male distribution pattern and a clinical picture similar to that of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).  
text: Immunohistochemistry is the most precise method of diagnosing certain types of muscular dystrophies, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), in which patients have reduced quantities of a protein called dystrophin.
text: MDA-supported investigators are actively pursuing several approaches to halt or reverse the muscle damage caused by Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD).
text: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) are two muscular dystrophies caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene.
text: Thanks to general medical advances, particularly in cardiology, people with Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) are living longer in the 21st century than in previous decades.
text: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD).
text: In Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), nearly 40 percent of patients may be diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy where the left ventricle becomes enlarged and thin, and cannot pump blood properly, by age 30.
text: Although there is no cure for any type of muscular dystrophy, some approved treatments have been approved for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD).
text: In people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD), facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), and myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), severe depression can occur because of physical and social hardships that cause psychological stress.
text: The approach could be beneficial for all DMD patients regardless of their genetic mutations, as well as for patients with Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), who have faulty dystrophin protein instead of no dystrophin at all.
text: Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD).
text: Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD) tends to be more mild than Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).
text: Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) is much like Duchenne muscular dystrophy and is characterized by weakness of the muscles of the legs that usually first is noticed in a boy’s pre-teen and teen years.
text: Myopathologies are associated with different ages of onset, for example, Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) as well as Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) demonstrating their first clinical manifestations during childhood , whereas some laminopathies such as myotonic dystrophy or limb-girdle muscular dystrophy are developed during adulthood .
text: Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) is clinically similar to DMD but is a less severe form of myopathy, affecting 1/30,000 males .
text: The CDC reports that 1 in every 7250 males ages 5-24 has Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DBMD).