High age-adjusted prevalence of Parkinson’s disease among Inuit in Greenland
| Autor: | Bernard Jeune, Henning Pakkenberg, Lene Wermuth |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Levodopa
Health (social science) Parkinson's disease Epidemiology business.industry Greenland Age adjustment Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Parkinson Disease General Medicine Disease medicine.disease Inuit Prevalence Life expectancy medicine Humans business Demography medicine.drug Parkinson's disease age-adjusted prevalences |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Circumpolar Health; Vol 63, Suppl 2 (2004) |
| ISSN: | 1239-9736 1797-237X |
| Popis: | Little is known about neurological diseases among the Inuit in Greenland, Alaska and Canada (1). As the life expectancy is about 10 years shorter in Greenland than in Denmark, it could be expected that neurodegenerative diseases which often occur late in life are relatively rare in Greenland. PD has an increasing prevalence later in life. A twofold higher prevalence of PD in the Faroe Islands and Greenland than in Denmark was expected from data of crude levodopa use (LDU) in the Faroe Islands and Denmark (2). High levodopa use has also been found in other countries such as Iceland (3). We evaluated the prevalence of PD among Inuit in Greenland in a case-finding study using the methods of cases ascertainment used in the Faroe Islands and on the island of Als (4,5). Keywords: Parkinson's disease, age-adjusted prevalences |
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