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What is the average age of death for Huntington's disease? The median timeframe of survival for someone with adult-onset Huntington's (or Huntington) disease (HD) is 15-18 years after symptoms begin. The average age of death for a person with HD is 54-55 years of age. Some individuals live longer, especially if symptoms do not begin until a later age. Juvenile HD, which is rarer than adult-onset HD, has a rapid disease progression once symptoms begin. Death typically occurs in people with JHD within 10 years of the start of symptoms.
An earlier onset form called juvenile HD, occurs under age 20. Symptoms of juvenile HD differ somewhat from adult onset HD and include unsteadiness, rigidity, difficulty at school, and seizures. More than 30,000 Americans have HD. Huntingtonâs disease is caused by a mutation in the gene for a protein called huntingtin. The defect causes the cytosine, adenine, and guanine (CAG) building blocks of DNA to repeat many more times than is normal. Each child of a parent with HD has a 50-50 chance of inheriting the HD gene.