Essential tremor prevalence is low in Arabic villages in Israel: Door-to-door neurological examinations

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 253, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1557-1560

  Inzelberg, Rivka ^a,b   Mazarib, Aziz ^c   Masarwa, Magda ^a   Abuful, Amin ^a   Strugatsky, Rosa ^a   Friedland, Robert F ^d  

^a HILLEL YAFFE MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c Rebecca Sieff Government Hospital   (Israel)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic; Epidemiology; Essential tremor; Prevalence; Tremor

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OSCILLATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

EID: 33846287908     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-006-0253-5     Document Type: Article

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