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Article: Back to basics: cerebral palsy. (last part)
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- Pediatrics for Parents
- Article date:
- May 1, 1989
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Back To Basics: Cerebral Palsy According to the United Cerebral Palsy Association, cerebral palsy is a group of disabling conditions poisoning, illness, child abuse, or other factors. Approximately 700,000 Americans (or 16 out of every 5,000) have some degree of cerebral palsy. A thou-sand babies with the disorder are born each year, and another 2,000 acquire it in the early years of life. Damage to the brain may occur before or during birth because of illness in pregnancy, premature delivery, or lack of oxygen supply to the baby; or it may occur early in life as a result of an accident, lead poisoning, illness, child abuse, or other factors. Approximately 700,000 ...