Internal tremor in people with Parkinson's Disease: Demographic characteristics and comorbid symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Internal tremor (IT) occurs in > 30 % of people with Parkinson's Disease (PwPD), but remains largely uninvestigated. Our objective was to describe demographic characteristics and associated symptoms in PwPD who reported IT.

Methods

This was a matched case-control survey study. Data were from PwPD in the Fox Insight study who answered the Patient Report of Problems (PD-PROP) assessment, a series of open-ended questions that asks people to report in their own words their most bothersome PD-related problems. Cases were those who reported IT ≥ 1 times compared with PwPD controls who did not report IT and were matched 1:3 by age and disease duration.

Results

243 PwPD reported IT as a bothersome problem. Mean (SD) age of cases was 64.9 (9.4) years and disease d

SUBMITTER: Chahine LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10689282 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature