prevalence of Parkinson's

K Hamilton · 10-06-2006, 02:56 AM

One thing that complicates life is a lack of agreement as to when one can say that they "developed" Parkinson's. Because they are looking for answers to different questions, some registries/studies use the time of diagnosis as the starting point, others use the time at which problems/symptoms first presented themselves, still others use the time at which it started to affect the quality of life.

K Hamilton · 10-06-2006, 03:07 AM

Keith:

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Originally Posted by The Godfather

Completely wrong again Wicksy. The first half of that Wikipedia article was written by me. Your ACTUAL epidemiologist wrote none of it.

Couldn't fool me, though - I picked out your inimitable writing style immediately. I couldn't tell you just which parts the epidemiologist wrote, though.

I noticed that somebody using the name "*******" aka "General Tojo" got themselves banned for life on Wikipedia. I'll assume you were a victim of identity theft.

The Godfather · 10-06-2006, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by K Hamilton

Keith:
Couldn't fool me, though - I picked out your inimitable writing style immediately. I couldn't tell you just which parts the epidemiologist wrote, though. The bad bits !

I noticed that somebody using the name "*******" aka "General Tojo" got themselves banned for life on Wikipedia. I'll assume you were a victim of identity theft.

Dozens of people were impersonating me on Wikipedia. Dozens more didn't impersonate me but were still assumed to be me.

The Godfather · 10-06-2006, 07:36 AM

The prevalence of Parkinson's Disease can not be 1 to 1.2 million in the USA as is widely claimed. The highest known prevalence in the USA (and the world) is in Nebraska. If the same prevalence in Nebraska existed all over the USA it would still be less than 1 million. Given that the prevalence in other US states is much lower, the true figure may be less than 700,000.

However, what is Parkinson's Disease ? I keep on reading on BrainTalk of people being diagnosed at a certain time, but they then add that they must have Parkinson's Disease for years before that. There are a huge number of people that have Parkinson's Disease but that never get diagnosed, or that just don't get it badly enough.

There are about 6 million people known to have Parkinson's Disease, and many tens of millions who will be diagnosed at some time in their life. There may be hundreds of millions who get the symptoms at some time. Parkinson's Disease symptoms are probably far far more common than is assumed. Billions of people in the world don't get it, but that's solely because they don't live long enough or because they get something else instead.

toyL · 10-06-2006, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by The Godfather

...or because they get something else instead. [/B]

I once tried to order a bowl of corn-flakes in the city of Nagpur. I got something else instead.

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