Article
Familial associations of Alzheimer disease and essential tremor with Parkinson disease.
European journal of neurology - 1 Jun 2010
Costello S, Bordelon Y, Bronstein J, Ritz B
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We constructed a cohort of first-degree relatives of participants in a population-based case-control study of Parkinson disease (PD) and compared the occurrence of Alzheimer disease (AD) and essential tremor (ET) in relatives of PD cases and controls. METHODS: We relied on proband interviews to assess family history in 372 probands with incident PD confirmed by a movement disorder specialist and 404...
Topics
- Age of Onset
- Aged
- Alzheimer Disease
- Case-Control Studies
- Cohort Studies
- Essential Tremor
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Parkinson Disease
