Functional Impairment in Individuals With Prodromal or Unrecognized Parkinson Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Daily functioning in individuals with prodromal Parkinson disease requires more detailed description.

Objective

To evaluate whether functional limitations exist in individuals with Parkinson disease prior to diagnosis compared with the general population.

Design, setting, and participants

This case-control study used Medicare-linked data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), a longitudinal survey in the US, for a random subsample of Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years or older, with Black and older individuals oversampled by design. Patients with incident Parkinson disease were defined as having 2 or more Medicare diagnoses from January 2011 to December 2017, with Medicare eligibility 2 or more consecutive years prior to the first diagno

SUBMITTER: Miller-Patterson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9856705 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature