Vascular risk factors do not contribute to motor and cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 73-74

  Slawek J ^a,b   Wieczorek, D ^a   Derejko, M ^c   Dubaniewicz, M ^a   Brockhuis, B ^a   Sitek, E ^a,b   Wilczewska, L ^a   Roszmann, A ^a,b   Lass, P ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b St Adalbert Hospital Gdansk   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 74149088947     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2009.07.012     Document Type: Letter

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