The prevalence of psychiatric symptoms before the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease in a nationwide cohort: A comparison to patients with cerebral infarction.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Psychiatric symptoms (PS) can be non-motor features in Parkinson's disease (PD) which are common even in the prodromal, untreated phase of the disease. Some PS, especially depression and anxiety recently became known predictive markers for PD. Our objective was to explore retrospectively the prevalence of PS before the diagnosis of PD.

Methods

In the framework of the Hungarian Brain Research Program we created a database from medical and medication reports submitted for reimbursement purposes to the National Health Insurance Fund in Hungary, a country with 10 million inhabitants and a single payer health insurance system. We used record linkage to evaluate the prevalence of PS before the diagnosis of PD and compared that with patients with ischemic cerebrovascular

SUBMITTER: Szatmari S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7402492 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature