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Is olfactory impairment in Parkinson disease related to phenotypic or genotypic characteristics?
Neurology - 2 Dec 2008
Verbaan D, Boesveldt S, van Rooden S M, Visser M, Marinus J, Macedo M G, Fang Y, Heutink P, Berendse H W, van Hilten J J
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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the relation between olfactory impairment (OI) and other impairment domains in Parkinson disease (PD) and the characteristics of OI in patients with certain genotypic characteristics. METHODS: In 295 nondemented patients with PD and 150 controls with a similar overall age and sex distribution, olfactory function was evaluated with the identification (ID) and discrimination (DIS) tests of...
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