Talk:Niemann–Pick disease

"Fatal"
I feel like this needs to be rephrased. While types A and C can be considered fatal, the most common type of NPD, type B, rarely is. I have a brother with NPD-B, but I don't have the scientific experience/journal references personally to back this up. Someone with more expertise in this area should probably find a way to rephrase, however. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.14.176.85 (talk) 02:40, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Medications cause Niemann-Pick ???
This seems highly unlikely. I suggest provide a reliable reference or delete.

Brmull (talk) 00:56, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I
I may be wrong, but I feel this sentence has a grammatical issue

Both types C1 and C2 Niemann-Pick disease are most commonly characterized by onset of ?? in childhood, although infant and adult onsets are possible.

Onset of what? If its correct, is it possible to make it more available as I can't sincerely be sure I am getting the message.

Due to the inherited genetic nature of this disease, the beginning of the diesease cannot be specifically attributed to one factor other than the defective genes in the affected individual. It may have something to do with the failure of cholesterol transport. Due to the number of competiting theories as to why the cholesterol transport fails in the first place, it is difficult to pinpoint one cause for the disease. Maybe a physician could help explain further? Sterichinderance 03:02, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Suggesting link to http://www.hideandseek.org/
There is a new organization called "Hide & Seek" that offers a great deal of information and support on all Lysosomal Diseases, including Niemann-Pick. They have an extremely prestigious international advisory board and I think their site would be a valuable link to include on this page.

It's http://www.hideandseek.org/

Thanks,

Howwiki (talk) 03:10, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Adverse Reactions to Medicines
There is no scientific basis for the assertions. NP-A, NP-B, and NP-C are solely caused by inheritance of diseased alleles. This section constitutes misinformation. Will be deleted.

Dory27 (talk) 16:09, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Infants: age of onset and symptoms?
I'd like to see some information about when this disease is detected and what symptoms are seen in infants: obviously slurred speech isn't going to be present. Trouble swallowing? Differences in subcutaneous fat? Monado (talk) 03:01, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

A form of dementia
According to the website www.alzheimers.org, Niemann's Pick disease is a rare form of dementia, so could this not be placed in the category entitled Dementia?Vorbee (talk) 19:35, 27 September 2017 (UTC)