Association between restless legs syndrome and essential tremor

Movement Disorders

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 515-518

  Ondo, William G ^a,d   Lai, Dejian ^b,c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Essential tremor; Restles legs syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSTONIA; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME;

EID: 33646259696     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20746     Document Type: Article

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