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Table 4 Number of admissions for other causes per SMA type

From: Management and current status of spinal muscular atrophy: a retrospective multicentre claims database analysis

Diagnoses

SMA-I

SMA-III

SMA-II and IV

Progressive SMA

Abdominal pain

6

29

49

80

Acute bronchitis

43

70

19

2

Acute respiratory failure

29

15

7

31

Anxiety

11

25

27

120

Asthma, unspecified

106

262

76

54

Breath abnormality

39

74

4

37

Chronic bronchitis

39

45

33

198

Chronic respiratory failure

8

13

2

31

Diabetes mellitus type II

37

254

526

2295

Disuse muscular atrophy

33

79

20

46

Infantile cerebral palsy, unspecified

65

68

0

32

Lumbar pain

1

8

12

58

Malaise and fatigue

1

2

14

57

Obesity

2

52

11

112

Pulmonary collapse

27

41

1

3

Pressure ulcer

10

15

96

258

Quadriplegia

7

8

25

26

Scoliosis

19

49

5

19

Supplementary oxygen dependency

7

17

0

10

Unspecified essential hypertension

83

284

590

1368

Patient number

38

84

62

229

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