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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-3-21
pubmed:abstractText
A recent study reported an association between left-handedness and some pathologies, such as autoimmune diseases, including myasthenia gravis (MG). We studied hand preference in 102 patients with a generalized autoimmune form of myasthenia gravis and in a control group of 178 subjects. We employed Oldfield's inventory with a few minor modifications. The questionnaire also asked the hand preference of patients' and controls' relatives. For each subject, the laterality quotient (LQ) was calculated and submitted to ANOVA. The frequency of left-handedness in controls was similar to that reported in the literature. Although left-handedness occurred less often in myasthenics, the difference between the two groups was not significant. Also the frequency of left-handedness in relatives of myasthenic patients did not differ from that observed in controls.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0010-9452
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
573-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
A study of hand preference in myasthenia gravis.
pubmed:affiliation
Istituto Neurologico C. Mondino, Università di Pavia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article