Projected number of people with Parkinson disease in the most populous nations, 2005 through 2030
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Based on published prevalence studies, we used two different methodologies to project the number of individuals with Parkinson disease (PD) in Western Europe’s 5 most and the world’s 10 most populous nations. The number of individuals with PD over age 50 in these countries was between 4.1 and 4.6 million in 2005 and will double to between 8.7 and 9.3 million by 2030.
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- Projected number of people with Parkinson disease in the most populous nations, 2005 through 2030
- Vincent P. Calabrese, MD, FAAN (senior), retired, Midlothian, VA 23113linvincal@verizon.net
Submitted April 01, 2007 - Reply from the Authors
- E. Ray Dorsey, University of Rochester Medical Center, 1351 Mt. Hope Ave., Suite 223, Rochester, NY 14620ray.dorsey@ctcc.rochester.edu
- Radu Constantinescu, Joel P. Thompson, Kevin M. Biglan, Robert G. Holloway, Karl Kieburtz, Fred J. Marshall, Bernard M. Ravina, Giovanni Schifitto, Andrew Siderowf, Caroline M. Tanner
Submitted April 01, 2007
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