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Morgante L
Height as a potential indicator of early life events predicting Parkinson's disease: a case-control study.
Aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between height in young adult age and Parkinson's disease (PD) risk. We included 266 persons affected by idiopathic PD. Patients were matched by age and sex to 266 controls by a random selection from the municipality of residence. We collected information about height preceding PD from official documents where these characteristics referred to young adult age (nearly 30 years). We compared height in cases and controls by calculating differences in mean distribution and by χ2 analyses. Crude and adjusted odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated by logistic regression models. Mean height was significantly lower in…
Age at onset of parkinson's disease in women is associated with age at menopause.
Tumor diagnosis after PD onset: a case-control study
Qual e' la percentuale dei pazienti con Malattia di Parkinson eleggibili per la stimolazione cerebrale profonda del subtalamo? Risultati di un questionario
Height as a predictor of Parkinson’s disease: a case-control study.
Long-term survival of Parkinson’s disease: a population-based case-control study.
In a set of a population-based study, long-term survival of 59 prevalent PD patients was compared with that of individuals free of neurological diseases matched 1:2 by sex and age of enrolment. PD individuals, compared with reference subjects, showed a two-fold increased risk of death (OR 2.1; 95 % CI 1.4, 3.1). Among causes of death, pneumonia and cachexia were significantly more frequent among PD patients than among individuals free of neurological diseases. We confirmed in a long-term follow-up study an increased mortality among PD individuals compared with that of the general population.