{"id":3305,"date":"2020-05-04T12:51:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T12:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/?page_id=3305"},"modified":"2020-05-04T12:51:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T12:51:50","slug":"what-is-muscular-dystrophy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/what-is-muscular-dystrophy\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Muscular Dystrophy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The muscular dystrophies (MD) are a group of inherited genetic conditions that gradually cause the muscles to weaken, leading to an increasing level of disability.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MD is a progressive condition, which means it gets worse over time. It often begins by affecting a particular group of muscles, before affecting the muscles more widely.<\/p>\n<p>Some\u00a0types of\u00a0MD eventually affect the heart or the muscles used for breathing, at which point the condition becomes life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no cure for MD, but treatment can help to manage many of the symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The muscular dystrophies (MD) are a group of inherited genetic conditions that gradually cause the muscles to weaken, leading to an increasing level of disability. MD is a progressive condition, which means it gets worse over time. It often begins by affecting a particular group of muscles, before affecting the muscles more widely. Some\u00a0types of\u00a0MD &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/what-is-muscular-dystrophy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is Muscular Dystrophy?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4400,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3305","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3321,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3305\/revisions\/3321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}