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Long-term survival of Parkinson’s disease: a population-based case-control study.

Marco D'amelioPaolo RagoneseGiuseppe SalemiGiovanni SavettieriMdMorgante LReggio AG. Callari G

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Settore MED/26 - NeurologiaParkinson’s disease · mortality · prognosis · population-based study

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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.

10.1007/s00415-005-0916-7http://hdl.handle.net/10447/13469