Myasthenia

About the Myasthenia

Myasthenia gravis is long-term, acquired disease. It most commonly affects women under 20-35 and people from 60 to 75 years old of either sex. Its characteristic features are weakness and fatigability. Due to modern technology, you can test on your own, are you in the threatened group.

What is myasthenia gravis?

Myasthenia gravis is a disease which leads to a defect in the transmission of nerve impulses from nerve endings to the muscles.

39% of patients

Report Eye-Related Symptoms - Like Double Vision (Diplopia), Droopy Eyelid (Ptosis)

31% of patients

report positive bulbar signs

28% of patients

report non-specific symptoms

1% of patients

report symptoms from respiratory muscles

It's easy

You need only a few steps to complete the test.

Start by siting with your back straight

Extend your left upper limb to your side along the body axis.

Put your smartphone on your palm facing upwards.

The measurement starts after few seconds, and is signaled with a sound.

The test lasts 30 seconds and it’s end is signaled with a sound.

Try to keep still for as long as you can, don’t talk.

The test was created based on scientific research.

The study comprised 15 myasthenia patients and 15 healthy individuals (the control group). Based on data collected from an accelerometer a statistical analysis was conducted. The field of the ROC curve for the test, with the division of the sample into groups of healthy and diseased individuals, was 0.844, which can be considered accurate.