AngelBabyFoundation.org
About AngelBabyFoundation.org
One in every 6,000 babies is born with SMA. Of children diagnosed before age two, 50 percent will die before their second birthday. SMA can strike anyone of any race or gender. One in every 40 people carries the gene that causes SMA. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), is the number one genetic killer of children under the age of two. SMA is a degenerative disease of the anterior horn cells. Anterior horn cells are located in the spinal cord.
