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Parkinson’s is not a deadly disease
How likely a person with Parkinson’s disease may die than those without this disease? This recurring question gives an answer to an article published in Neurology. The retrospective study was conducted in Norway in 230 people with Parkinson’s disease followed for some years. The information was processed with multivariate analysis.
The study found that the risk of mortality increases by 1.89 times if any dementia, 1.45 in the presence of psychosis, of 1.18 times in severe motor impairments. These factors are potentially modifiable. As for the non-modifiable factors we have seen that the risk increases by 1.40 times in relation to age at onset (older you are, the greater), 1.51 in relation to chronological age, 1.63 times in males.
The hallucinations are more important than benign hallucinations, there are no correlations with antiparkinsonian drugs, or antipsychotics, or with individual motor symptoms, except with postural instability and gait disorders (increased risk of 1, 70).
The authors suggest that to increase life expectancy in Parkinson’s disease are vital to early prevention of disability and motor development of dementia and psychosis. Since no single factor has shown a very significant effect and Parkinson’s disease itself is not a deadly disease, confirming the notion that life expectancy in Parkinson’s disease is linked to overall health than the disease itself.
Parkinson’s Disease
The tango is a dance rhythm, rather, came from Latin America.
Parkinson’s disease: tango improves the condition of patients
In Besancon Franche-Comté association Parkinson offers tango classes for patients with Parkinson’s disease.
Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine in St. Louis conducted a study on the Argentine tango.
The study conducted by researchers took place in twenty dance lessons. At a time of course, different exercises were proposed, such as stretching, balance exercises and different dance steps.
After class, researchers have noted the condition of PD patients. Indeed, patients with Parkinson’s disease have better mobility and better balance after the tango.
What is Restless Legs Syndrome
This syndrome is a major cause of insomnia and that, once the sufferer who is in bed, feeling a burning desire to move the legs, usually at dawn, making it impossible to sleep and rest. Some sufferers describe it as a tingling or burning that is quiet a bit with the movement, but not for long, because after a few minutes, the desire to move their legs again, repeated periods of one hour or more.
It is a neurological disorder that affects mostly people of middle age and worsens with stress.
Another symptom that patients often face is, apart from a desire to move the legs Read the rest of this entry »
What Is Parkinson’s disease? Part 2
Psychological problems are fairly common during the illness: often the type of depression, anxiety, irritability or sometimes ideas of persecution. The intellectual impairment is rare, and it should suggest other diagnoses (see other parkinsonian syndromes). Visual hallucinations occur occasionally, but almost always after many years of evolution or in some treatments, if again we must mention other diagnoses. Read the rest of this entry »