Epidemiology of Parkinson's disease and akinetic syndromesC M Tanner
The Parkinson s Institute, Sunnyvale, California 94089 1605, USA
Curr Opin Neurol 13:427-30. 2000
..Recent genetic epidemiology studies of parkinsonism in twins and families, and studies that investigated imaging and physiologic markers of dopaminergic function in members without parkinsonism are presented...
- Essential tremor in twins: an assessment of genetic vs environmental determinants of etiology
C M Tanner
Parkinson s Institute, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, USA
Neurology 57:1389-91. 2001
..To determine the relative contribution of genetics and environment to essential tremor using a twin study method...
- Smoking and Parkinson's disease in twins
C M Tanner
Parkinson s Institute, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, USA
Neurology 58:581-8. 2002
..To test the hypothesis that cigarette smoking protects against the development of PD...
- Parkinson disease in twins: an etiologic study
C M Tanner
The Parkinson s Institute, Sunnyvale, Calif 94089, USA
JAMA 281:341-6. 1999
..The cause of Parkinson disease (PD) is unknown. Genetic linkages have been identified in families with PD, but whether most PD is inherited has not been determined...
- Minimum incidence of primary cervical dystonia in a multiethnic health care population
C Marras
Parkinson s Institute, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, USA
Neurology 69:676-80. 2007
..The two existing estimates of the incidence of primary cervical dystonia were based on observations in relatively ethnically homogeneous populations of European descent...
- Survival in Parkinson disease: thirteen-year follow-up of the DATATOP cohort
C Marras
Division of Neurology, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 2S8
Neurology 64:87-93. 2005
..To investigate predictors of survival in Parkinson disease (PD)...
- Consumption of milk and calcium in midlife and the future risk of Parkinson disease
M Park
Korea University Genomic Institute, College of Medicine, Korea University, Ansan-si, Republic of Korea
Neurology 64:1047-51. 2005
..Whether observed effects are mediated through nutrients other than calcium or through neurotoxic contaminants warrants further study...
- Midlife adiposity and the future risk of Parkinson's disease
R D Abbott
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA
Neurology 59:1051-7. 2002
..Whether patterns of adiposity coexist or predate clinical PD is unknown. This report examines the relation between midlife adiposity and the risk of PD...
- Occupation and parkinsonism in three movement disorders clinics
S M Goldman
The University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Neurology 65:1430-5. 2005
..The aim of the present study was to investigate occupational associations with PD or parkinsonism drawing from three different movement disorders clinics...
- Excessive daytime sleepiness and subsequent development of Parkinson disease
R D Abbott
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Neurology 65:1442-6. 2005
..To determine if excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) can predate future Parkinson disease (PD)...
- Optimizing the ongoing search for new treatments for Parkinson disease: using futility designs
B C Tilley
Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, P O Box 250835, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Neurology 66:628-33. 2006
..Futility studies may decrease the time to identify treatments unworthy of further pursuit and reduce subjects' exposure to futile treatments...
- Projected number of people with Parkinson disease in the most populous nations, 2005 through 2030
E R Dorsey
Department of Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center, 1351 Mt Hope Blvd, Suite 223, Rochester, NY 14620, USA
Neurology 68:384-6. 2007
..The number of individuals with PD over age 50 in these countries was between 4.1 and 4.6 million in 2005 and will double to between 8.7 and 9.3 million by 2030...
- DLB and PDD boundary issues: diagnosis, treatment, molecular pathology, and biomarkers
C F Lippa
Department of Neurology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Neurology 68:812-9. 2007
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- Effect of reproductive factors and postmenopausal hormone use on the risk of Parkinson disease
R A Popat
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5405, USA
Neurology 65:383-90. 2005
..The objective of this study was to evaluate the associations of reproductive factors and postmenopausal hormone use with the risk of PD among postmenopausal women...
