Newborn screening 50 years later: access issues faced by adults with PKU.

ABSTRACT: Fifty years after the implementation of universal newborn screening programs for phenylketonuria, the first disease identified through newborn screening and considered a success story of newborn screening, a cohort of adults with phenylketonuria treated from birth provides valuable information about effects of long-term treatment for inborn errors of metabolism in general, and phenylketonuria specifically. For phenylketonuria, newborn screening allows early implementation of the phenylalanine-restricted diet, eliminating the severe neurocognitive and neuromotor impairment associated with untreated phenylketonuria. However, executive function impairments and psychiatric problems are frequently reported even for those treated early and continuously with the phenylalanine-restricted diet alon

SUBMITTER: Berry SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3938172 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature