Clinical profile of parkinsonism and Parkinson's disease in Lagos, Southwestern Nigeria

BMC Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Okubadejo, Njideka U ^a,b   Ojo, Oluwadamilola O ^b   Oshinaike, Olajumoke O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

^b LAGOS UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Nigeria)

^c LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATROPINE; BROMOCRIPTINE; CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LEVODOPA; ROPINIROLE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NIGERIA; ONSET AGE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREMOR; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITALIZATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74549181272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-10-1     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Okubadejo NU, Bower JH, Rocca WA, Maraganore DM. Parkinson's disease in Africa: a systematic review of epidemiologic and genetic studies. Mov Disord 2006, 12:2150-2156.
2. Osuntokun BO, Schoenberg BS, Nottidge VA, Adeuja A, Kale O, Adeyefa A, Bademosi O, Olumide A, Oyediran ABO, Pearson CA, Bolis CL. Research protocol for measuring the prevalence of neurologic disorders in developing countries: results of a pilot study in Nigeria. Neuroepidemiology 1982, 1:143-153.
3. Osuntokun BO, Adeuja AO, Schoenberg BS, Bademosi O, Nottidge VA, Olumide AO, Ige O, Yaria F, Bolis CL. Neurological disorders in Nigerian Africans: a community-based study. Acta Neurol Scand 1987, 75:13-21. 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1987.tb07883.x, 3033973.
4. Schoenberg BS, Osuntokun BO, Adeuja AO, Bademosi O, Nottidge V, Anderson DW, Haerer AF. Comparison of the prevalence of Parkinson's disease in black populations in the rural United States and in rural Nigeria: door-to-door community studies. Neurology 1988, 38:645-646.
5. Osuntokun BO, Bademosi O. Parkinsonism in the Nigerian African: a prospective study of 217 patients. East Afr Med J 1979, 56:597-607.
6. Quinn N. Multiple system atrophy - the nature of the beast. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1989, 52:78-89.
7. Ahlskog JE. Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders 2001, 7:63-70.
8. Schrag A, Ben-Shlomo Y, Quinn N. How valid is the clinical diagnosis of Parkinson's disease in the community?. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2002, 73:529-534. 10.1136/jnnp.73.5.529, 1738115, 12397145.
9. Hoehn MM, Yahr MD. Parkinsonism: onset, progression and mortality. Neurology 1967, 17:427-442.
10. Goetz CG, Poewe W, Rascol O, Sampaio C, Stebbins GT, Counsell C, Giladi N, Holloway RG, Moore CG, Wenning GK, Yahr MD, Seidl L, . Movement Disorder Society Task Force on Rating Scales for Parkinson's Disease Movement Disorder Task Force report on the Hoehn and Yahr staging scale: status and recommendations. Mov Disord 2004, 19:1020-1028. 10.1002/mds.20213, 15372591, Movement Disorder Society Task Force on Rating Scales for Parkinson's Disease.
11. Movement Disorder Society Task Force on Rating Scales for Parkinson's Disease The Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS): status and recommendations. Mov Disord 2003, 18:738-50. 10.1002/mds.10473, 12815652, Movement Disorder Society Task Force on Rating Scales for Parkinson's Disease.
12. Gibb WR, Lees AJ. The relevance of the Lewy body to the pathogenesis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1988, 51:745-52. 10.1136/jnnp.51.6.745, 1033142, 2841426.
13. Suchowersky O, Reich S, Perlmutter J, Zesiewicz T, Gronseth G, Weiner WJ, . Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology Practice Parameter: diagnosis and prognosis of new onset Parkinson disease (an evidence-based review): report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology 2006, 66:968-75. 10.1212/01.wnl.0000215437.80053.d0, 16606907, Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.
14. Alvarez MV, Evidente VG, Driver-Dunckley ED. Differentiating Parkinson's disease from other parkinsonian disorders. Semin Neurol 2007, 27:356-62. 10.1055/s-2007-985336, 17701873.
15. Bower JH, Maraganore DM, McDonnell SK, Rocca WA. Incidence and distribution of parkinsonism in Olmsted County, Minnesota, 1976-1990. Neurology 1999, 52:1214-20.
16. Baldereschi M, Di Carlo A, Rocca WA, Vanni P, Maggi S, Perissinotto E, Grigoletto F, Amaducci L, Inzitari D. Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism in a longitudinal study: two-fold higher incidence in men. ILSA Working Group. Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging. Neurology 2000, 55:1358-1363.
17. Dluzen DF. Neuroprotective effects of estrogen upon the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system. J Neurocytol 2000, 29:387-99. 10.1023/A:1007117424491, 11424955.
18. Pankratz N, Foroud T. Genetics of Parkinson disease. Genet Med 2007, 9:801-11. 10.1097/GIM.0b013e31815bf97c, 18091429.
19. Biskup S, Gerlach M, Kupsch A, Reichmann H, Riederer P, Vieregge P, Wüllner U, Gasser T. Genes associated with Parkinson syndrome. J Neurol 2008, 255(Suppl 5):8-17. 10.1007/s00415-008-5005-2, 18787878.
20. Okubadejo N, Britton A, Crews C, Akinyemi R, Hardy J, Singleton A, Bras J. Analysis of Nigerians with apparently sporadic Parkinson disease for mutations in LRRK2, PRKN and ATXN3. PLoS ONE 2008, 3:e3421. 10.1371/journal.pone.0003421, 2559870, 18927607.
21. Dotchin CL, Msuya O, Walker RW. The challenge of Parkinson's disease management in Africa. Age Ageing 2007, 36:122-7. 10.1093/ageing/afl172, 17261529.
22. Okubadejo NU, Ojini FI, Danesi MA. Longitudinal study of mortality predictors in Parkinson's disease in Nigerians. African Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences 2005, 34:365-9.