Prevalence of Parkinsonian signs and associated mortality in a community population of older people

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 334, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 71-76

  Bennett, David A ^a,b   Beckett, Laurel A ^a   Murray, Anne M ^a   Shannon, Kathleen M ^b   Goetz, Christopher G ^b   Pilgrim, David M ^c   Evans, Denis A ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRADYKINESIA; COMMUNITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; PARKINSONISM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREMOR;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BOSTON; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MORTALITY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030043663     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199601113340202     Document Type: Article

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