Incidence of essential tremor in three elderly populations of Central Spain

Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1721-1725

  Benito León, Julian ^a,d   Bermejo Pareja, Félix ^b   Louis, Elan D ^c  

^a HOSPITAL DE MÓSTOLES   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

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

^d NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPAIN;

EID: 18844451452     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000161852.70374.01     Document Type: Article

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