Table 1.

Data from ALS patients and control subjects

Sex	Age	Duration of ALS (months)	Cause of death	Somatic diseases	Autopsy finding	Concomitant neurological symptoms	PMI (h)	Hemisphere
ALS
F	76	21	Respiratory failure bronchopneumonia				27	Right
M	69	22	Respiratory failure bronchopneumonia				30	Right
M	72	20	Respiratory failure bronchopneumonia				27	Right
F	67	33	Respiratory failure		Thyroid gland adenoma		6	Left
F	75	9	Respiratory failure	Endometrial cancer without recurrence		Dementia	6	Left
M	51	37	Respiratory failure				22	Right
M	56	38	Respiratory failure bronchopneumonia				30	Left
M	61	20	Respiratory failure				28	Left
Controls
M	60		Myocardial infarction		Oesophagus cancer		12	Left
M	66		Cardiac failure		Colon cancer with liver-metatases		16	Left
F	71		Oesophageal varices haemorrhage	Cirrhosis			22	Left
F	73		Myocardial infarction				26	Right
M	55		Cardiac failure	Uraemia, haemodialysis (6 months)			21	Right
M	61		Myocardial infarction	NIDDM, hypertension			22	Right
M	60		Cardiac failure pulmonary infarction				27	Right
M	65		Myocardial infarction	COPD			32	Left
F	77		Cardiac failure	Mamma cancer with metastases			33	Right

COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; NIDDM, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; PMI, post-mortem interval.