Facts on Down-Syndrome
- over 400,000 people in America have Down syndrome. (Approximately 1 of every 700 babies)
- Down syndrome is a chromosomal condition.
- People with downs have an extra 21st chromosome. (A scientific name for the extra 21st chromosome is
trisomy 21)
- Downs happens in all races or economical levels.
- Chances
of having a baby with downs increase in maternal age.
- Life expectancy is 60
years of age
- People with downs do daily work in their society.
- Life expectancy for people with Down syndrome has increased dramatically in recent decades - from 25
in 1983 to 60 today.
- People are born with Down syndrome more often when the
mother is over the age of 35
- Down syndrome changes in to Alzheimer’s as they grow
- Down syndrome comes with things such as: heart disorder, poor
vision, and respiratory problems
- Down syndrome can be less severe or more
- Children with D.S. can be trained to their full potentials with their disabilities.
- Studies have it that when children with Down syndrome grow up at home with a higher IQ then when they grow up in institutions.
- Down syndrome was named after John Langdon Haydon Down a British physician who first
described the condition in 1866
- No ways to prevent D.S.
-At age 30, for example, a woman has about a 1 in 1,000 chance of conceiving a child
with DS. Those odds increase to about 1 in 400 by age 35. By 40 the risk rises
to about 1 in 100.
- over 400,000 people in America have Down syndrome. (Approximately 1 of every 700 babies)
- Down syndrome is a chromosomal condition.
- People with downs have an extra 21st chromosome. (A scientific name for the extra 21st chromosome is
trisomy 21)
- Downs happens in all races or economical levels.
- Chances
of having a baby with downs increase in maternal age.
- Life expectancy is 60
years of age
- People with downs do daily work in their society.
- Life expectancy for people with Down syndrome has increased dramatically in recent decades - from 25
in 1983 to 60 today.
- People are born with Down syndrome more often when the
mother is over the age of 35
- Down syndrome changes in to Alzheimer’s as they grow
- Down syndrome comes with things such as: heart disorder, poor
vision, and respiratory problems
- Down syndrome can be less severe or more
- Children with D.S. can be trained to their full potentials with their disabilities.
- Studies have it that when children with Down syndrome grow up at home with a higher IQ then when they grow up in institutions.
- Down syndrome was named after John Langdon Haydon Down a British physician who first
described the condition in 1866
- No ways to prevent D.S.
-At age 30, for example, a woman has about a 1 in 1,000 chance of conceiving a child
with DS. Those odds increase to about 1 in 400 by age 35. By 40 the risk rises
to about 1 in 100.