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What is the average life expectancy?

April 26, 2017average expectancy life

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What is the average life expectancy?

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Between two and five years for the newly diagnosed person, although improved medical care is resulting in longer and more productive lives for people with ALS/MND. Twenty percent will live more than five years and up to ten percent will survive more than ten years.

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This is between two and five years for the newly diagnosed person. Improved medical care is resulting in longer and more productive lives for people with ALS/MND. Twenty percent will live more than five years and up to 10% will survive more than ten years.

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The average life expectancy of a bulldog is 8 to 10 years. Unfortunately, this is not long enough. Some die (for various reasons) at younger ages, while others have been known to live 12 to 14 years, and a few even longer!

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ALS is a fatal disease: Most ALS patients die within two to five years of diagnosis. Common causes of death are respiratory failure and/or cardiac problems related to insufficient oxygen. Patients may also suffer respiratory infections, such as pneumonia. Up to 10 percent of ALS patients live for 10 years or more after diagnosis. Some of these are patients who have opted to use a ventilator to assist breathing. Physicist Stephen Hawking has lived more than 40 years with the disease, though he does not use a respirator. Read more of Hawking’s story.