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Most common cause of death in Klinefelter's syndrome is?

A
Infections
B
Cardiovascular
C
Respiratory
D
suicide
High-Yield Explanation
ANSWER: (A) InfectionsREF: www.ncbi.nlm.nih .gov/pubmed/15292313 None of the text books mention it directly.On searching various studies, it was found that only two studies by far have been conducted to find increased mortality in klienfelter's syndrome, there for a larger cohort study was done where patients were followed for a long time.The results of study are complicated with statastical tools and stuff; therefore i took help of stasticians and simplified it.The most common cause of death was found to be infections > neurological diseases > lung and circulatory diseases > suicide

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