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From: The experience of living with Niemann–Pick type C: a patient and caregiver perspective

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Ranking of symptom worry in the present and past. A Most important current worry is a decline in mobility and motor skills, which encompasses concerns about gait and balance, risk of falling, and ataxia. Dysphagia is the second-most important current worry, followed by loss of autonomy and cognition. B Most important past worry was a decline in mobility and motor skills. Cognition is mentioned as second-most important past concern. Although N = 7 patients experienced psychiatric symptoms in the past, concerns about psychiatric problems were not most important. C Most bothersome symptom in the present is cognitive difficulty. Decline in mobility and motor skills is the second-most bothersome symptom. D Cognition is most often mentioned as a treatment priority

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