Prevalence of Parkinson disease in Singapore: Chinese vs Malays vs Indians

Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1999-2004

  Tan, Louis C S ^a   Venketasubramanian, N ^a   Hong, C Y ^b   Sahadevan, S ^c   Chin, J J ^c   Krishnamoorthy, E S ^a   Tan, A K Y ^a   Saw, S M ^b  

^a NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZATION; SINGAPORE;

EID: 2942598336     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000128090.79756.10     Document Type: Article

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