Healthcare Utilization, Costs of Care, and Mortality Among Patients With Spinal Muscular Atrophy by Hiangkiat Tan, Tao Gu, Er Chen, Rajeshwari Punekar, Perry B. Shieh

“…**Objectives:** To understand treatment patterns, healthcare resource utilization, and costs of care among patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). **Methods:** SMA patients were identified from a large managed care population using administrative claims data from January 2006 to March 2016. …”
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Genomic analysis of the SMN1 gene region in patients with clinically diagnosed spinal muscular atrophy: a retrospective observational study by Tamaki Kato, Mamoru Yokomura, Yutaka Osawa, Kensuke Matsuo, Yuji Kubo, Taihei Homma, Kayoko Saito

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The lived experience of migrant Syrian mothers’ interaction with the neonatal screening program by Mehmet Akif Sezerol, Zeynep Meva Altaş, Emrullah Arslan

“…A few participants had heard of congenital hypothyroidism (CH), congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), but they were not aware of the symptoms and effects of these diseases. …”
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