Senile tremor. What is the prevalence and severity of tremor in older adults?

Gerontology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 12-16

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c   Wendt, Kristin J ^b   Ford, Blair ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Essential tremor; Geriatrics; Older adults; Prevalence; Tremor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREMOR; VIDEOTAPE;

EID: 0033989665     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022127     Document Type: Article

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