Factors associated with increased risk of head tremor in essential tremor: A community-based study in northern Manhattan

Movement Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 432-436

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b   Ford, Blair ^b   Frucht, Steven ^b  

^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

Community; Epidemiology; Essential tremor; Head tremor; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HEAD; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; RISK; TREMOR; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0038408855     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10395     Document Type: Article

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