Title: Prevalence of Parkinson's disease in Cantalejo, Spain: A door-to-door survey |
Authors: Clavería, Luis Erik Duarte, Jacinto Sevillano, Maria Dolores Perez-Sempere, Angel ![](/image/ORCID.jpg) Cabezas, Carmen ![](/image/ORCID.jpg) Rodríguez, Fernanda de Pedro Cuesta, Jesús ![](/image/ORCID.jpg) |
Editor: Wiley |
Department: Departamentos de la UMH::Medicina Clínica |
Issue Date: 2002-02 |
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/11000/30559 |
Abstract:
We assessed the prevalence of Parkinson’s disease
in Cantalejo, Spain. In 1994, we screened 1,579 persons (age $
40 years) using a high-sensitivity method. Cases fulfilling established
clinical criteria were followed for a minimum of 3
years. Prevalences were compared with those from other doorto-
door surveys. We detected 27 individuals with parkinsonism,
20 of whom had Parkinson’s disease. The prevalence of
Parkinson’s disease increased with age and, when age-adjusted
to European standards, was 9.01 per 1,000 (age 40 years and
over; 10.78 in men and 5.23 in women). Of the 11 men, three
were in Hoehn & Yahr grades III–IV, but six of the nine
women were more severely affected. Overall, we found 18
newly diagnosed cases of parkinsonism, 13 of which were Parkinson’s
disease, and the majority of which were in men aged
80 years or older with a mean duration of illness of 5 years. Our
prevalence figures are the highest reported, apparently because
of the inclusion of several very elderly men. Parkinson’s disease
in Cantalejo is less severe in men than in women, particularly
in those newly diagnosed. Despite the low numbers, the
high prevalence and sex-related pattern are unexplained but
they probably relate to the high sensitivity of the screening
method. © 2002 Movement Disorder Society
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Keywords/Subjects: door-to-door surveys epidemiology Parkinson’s disease prevalence |
Knowledge area: CDU: Ciencias aplicadas: Medicina |
Type of document: application/pdf |
Access rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.10087 |
Appears in Collections: Artículos Medicina Clínica
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