Parkinson's disease prevalence, age distribution and staging in Colombia

• Main Authors: Jorge Luis Orozco (Author), Jaime Andrés Valderrama-Chaparro (Author), Gabriel David Pinilla-Monsalve (Author), María Isabel Molina-Echeverry (Author), Ana Melissa Pérez Castaño (Author), Yoseth Ariza-Araújo (Author), Sergio I. Prada (Author), Yuri Takeuchi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Parkinson's disease (PD) has the second highest prevalence among neurodege - nerative diseases. In Colombia, PD population dynamics are currently unknown. Health records offer a unique resource to study frequency and multi-morbidity of chronic diseases. The aim of this research is to estimate p...