Early weight loss in parkinsonism predicts poor outcomes
Evidence from an incident cohort study
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- Received May 13, 2017
- Accepted in final form September 11, 2017
- First Published October 27, 2017.
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- Kirsten Cumming, MBChB*,
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- Angus D. Macleod, PhD*,
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(1) Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government, CAF 12/05, Clinical Academic Fellowship, 2012-2015 (2) Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government, PCL/17/10, NES/CSO Postdoctoral Clinical Lecturer Scheme, 2017-2019
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(1) Parkinson's UK (G-1302) (2) Wellcome Trust (3) NHS Grampian Endowments (4) Academy of Medical Sciences
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- Phyo K. Myint, MD and
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? Senior Editorial Board Member: American Journal of Cardiovascular Disease (April 2012-) ? Associate Editor: BMC Health Services Research Journal (2009-) ? International Editorial Board Member: Open Heart Failure Journal (2008- ) ? Editorial Board Member: Geriatrics (2014- ) ? Editorial Board Member: Annals of Translational Medicine (2016- ) ? Editorial Board Member: Scientific Reports (2017- ) ? Associate Editor: Frontiers in Neurology (2017- )
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received funding support from NIHR (1)Research for Patient Benefit Programme; PB-PG-0212- 27075, Co-PI, 2016-2018 (2) Research for Patient Benefit Programme; PB-PG-0909- 20246, Co-PI, 2013-2017 (3) Programme Grant for Applied Research; RP-PG-0613- 20007, co-applicant, 2015-2020.
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- Carl E. Counsell, MD
Served on Steering committee or Data Monitoring Committee for the following non-industry sponsored studies: PDMED (2004 ongoing); PDSURG (2002- 2010); PDCOMM (2016 ongoing). No financial compensation received for any of these except travel expenses.
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Honorarium for speaking at Edinburgh Advanced Neurology Course, 2012 (bank transfer)
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Employed by University of Aberdeen, UK
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(1) Chief Scientist Office/Scottish Government, CZG/2/419, principal investigator, 2009-2011 (2) National Institute of Health Research/UK, RP-PG-0707- 10124, co-investigator, 2009-2014
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(1) Multiple Sclerosis Society, UK
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- From the School of Medicine (K.C.), Medical Sciences & Nutrition, and Chronic Disease Research Group (A.D.M., C.E.C.) and Ageing Clinical & Experimental Research Team (P.K.M.), Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
- Correspondence to Dr. Macleod: Angus.Macleod{at}abdn.ac.uk
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- Author response: Early weight loss in neurodegenerative disorders could be related to increased protein metabolism in the brain
- Angus D. Macleod, Clinical Lecturer in Neurology, University of Aberdeen
- Phyo K. Myint, Professor of Old Age Medicine, University of Aberdeen
- Carl E. Counsell, Reader (Clinical) in Neurology, University of Aberdeen
Submitted April 13, 2018 - Early weight loss in neurodegenerative disorders could be related to increased protein metabolism in the brain
- Lucio Marinelli, Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Genovalucio.marinelli@unige.it
Submitted November 09, 2017
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