Community-based data on associations of disease duration and age with severity of essential tremor: Implications for disease pathophysiology

Movement Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 90-93

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b   Jurewics, Eva C ^a   Watner, Dryden ^a  

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

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Duration; Essential tremor; Pathophysiology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEW YORK CITY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0037246451     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10302     Document Type: Review

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