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Originally Posted by soccertese
for the u.s., you have to keep in mind that the factors that caused pd might have occurred years ago and have no relationship to where the medicare recipient currently lives. you tend to move to the city to be near healthcare/support services when you retire. just food for thought.
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I had thought of that before too, Soccertese, and I just assumed that this had been accounted for in the epidemiology studies, but I don't think it has?!?? Basing it prescriptions and medicine means nothing than here are people now showing prevalence. This sort of information as presented is misleading. Without knowing where all these people lived decades before diagnosis, we cannot conclude much of anything on etiology. This is yet another vote for more cluster studies.