Regional and racial differences in the prevalence of physician-diagnosed essential tremor in the United States

Movement Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1035-1040

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b   Fried, Linda P ^c   Fitzpatrick, Annette L ^d   Longstreth, William T ^d   Newman, Anne B ^e  

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

^b Johns Hopkins University ^*  (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Essential tremor; Ethnicity; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INCOME; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEGRO; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIANS; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141502267     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10492     Document Type: Article

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