Muscular dystrophy

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Muscular dystrophy is a group of muscle diseases that weaken the musculoskeletal system and hamper locomotion. Muscular dystrophy is characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins, and the death of muscle cells and tissue. The disease has more than one form some of them are the Duchenne, Becker, limb-girdle, congenital, facioscapulohumeral, myotonic, oculopharyngeal, distal, and Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy. Muscular dystrophies are known to affect males but females are the usual carriers of the disease gene. Most types of the disease are multi-system disorders which damage body systems including the heart, gastrointestinal system, nervous system, endocrine glands, eyes and brain...