Stroke in South Asia: a systematic review of epidemiologic literature from 1980 to 2010.

abstract：:A comparison of epidemiological and clinical features of trigeminal neuralgia (TN) and glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GN) in Rochester, Minn., reveals several differences. The overall age- and sex-adjusted annual incidence rates were significantly higher for TN than for GN (4.7 vs. 0.8 per 100,000 population). The TN:GN ...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Katusic S,Williams DB,Beard CM,Bergstralh EJ,Kurland LT

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the prevalence of Parkinson's disease (PD) in Gypsies and Caucasians in Bulgaria. Cases were ascertained by examination in a clinic, a screening questionnaire and a door-to-door survey in a region of Sofia, Bulgaria. The prevalence of PD in the Gypsies was found to be 16/100,000 based on 1 case compared to ...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Milanov I,Kmetski TS,Lyons KE,Koller WC

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We assessed the incidence and determinants of aphasia attributable to first-ever acute stroke. We also investigated early and long-term mortality and 1-year dependence in post-stroke patients. METHODS:A 10-year prospective hospital-based study was conducted in the prefecture of Athens, Greece. RESULTS:In t...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Tsouli S,Kyritsis AP,Tsagalis G,Virvidaki E,Vemmos KN

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The previously reported prevalence of multiple sclerosis in Bulgaria is considerably lower than that reported for neighbouring countries. The aim of this study was to perform a detailed epidemiological investigation in well-defined populations in this country to obtain an accurate estimate of the frequency of multiple...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Milanov I,Georgiev D,Kmetska K,Jordanova L,Topalov N

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1994 several European studies will have available risk factor information on incident cases of dementia collected in prospective community-based studies. These centers will collaborate in a nested-case control study based on the pooled cases and a sample of the non-diseased respondents. This paper describes the gen...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Launer LJ,Brayne C,Breteler MM

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies on dyskinesia and Parkinson's syndrome associated with chronic kidney disease or end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have been mainly limited to case reports or case series studies. This population-based study investigated the risk of Parkinson's disease in patients with ESRD. METHODS:From a universal in...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Wang IK,Lin CL,Wu YY,Chou CY,Lin SY,Liu JH,Yen TH,Huang CC,Sung FC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increased risk for first-degree relatives (FDR) of glioma patients has previously been observed. The novel objective of this study was to investigate differences in familial risk among FDR of low-grade glioma (LGG) and high-grade glioma (HGG) cases, respectively. Two cohorts were constructed, one from 15,321 FDR of...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Malmer B,Henriksson R,Grönberg H

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is believed that an interaction between genetic and non-genetic factors may be involved in the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). With the exception of exposure to agricultural chemicals like pesticides, evidence of an association between environmental risk factors and ALS is inconsistent...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Povedano M,Saez M,Martínez-Matos JA,Barceló MA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of the study is to investigate the epidemiology of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and multiple sclerosis (MS) in Taiwan. METHODS:Cases of CJD and MS were identified from the National Health Insurance Research Database from January 2000 to December 2005. Age- and sex-specific incidences of these...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Lai CH,Tseng HF

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human neurocysticercosis (NC) is a parasitic disease caused by TAENIA SOLIUM when its larvae lodge in the central nervous system. NC prevalence estimates are obscured by the variable and often asymptomatic clinical picture. While infection depends on exposure, severity is possibly related with various host factors (im...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Fleury A,Gomez T,Alvarez I,Meza D,Huerta M,Chavarria A,Carrillo Mezo RA,Lloyd C,Dessein A,Preux PM,Dumas M,Larralde C,Sciutto E,Fragoso G

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we studied the effect of population ancestry on the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) in US veterans of World War II, comparing by state 1980 US census ancestry data with MS case/control ratios. Here, the joint effects of population ancestry and surname-derived ethnicity on MS risk are examined in the same s...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Page WF,Mack TM,Kurtzke JF,Murphy FM,Norman JE Jr

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiple sclerosis (MS) mortality 1968-1977 in France, as reported by Alpérovitch and Bouvier, was tested for a possible correlation with a number of sociogeographic variables from relevant periods. The MS rate was associated with the main industry groups (metal processing and textile industry), with industry as a...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Lauer K

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Cognitive decline is a defining feature of dementia. We sought to determine if a single baseline cognitive test score or change in test score over time is more strongly associated with risk of dementia hospitalization. We also sought to compare short- and long-term dementia risk. METHODS:Prospective co...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Schneider AL,Gottesman RF,Mosley T,Alonso A,Knopman DS,Coresh J,Sharrett AR,Selvin E

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited epidemiological data exist about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in the United States (US). The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry maintains the National ALS Registry and funded state and metropolitan surveillance projects to obtain reliable, timely information about ALS in defined ...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Jordan H,Fagliano J,Rechtman L,Lefkowitz D,Kaye W

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Results of recently conducted prospective studies have demonstrated that the presence of high titers of anti-EBNA-1 or anti-EBNA complex IgG antibodies in healthy individuals is a strong risk factor for multiple sclerosis (MS). Antibodies to BZLF1, the product of the homonymous early lytic gene, have be...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Massa J,Munger KL,O'Reilly EJ,Falk KI,Ascherio A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious viruses and bacteria can trigger multiple sclerosis (MS) exacerbations. Seasonally changing concentrations of ambient air pollutants are known to predispose to transmissible infections, to induce systemic immune responses and to enhance existing peripheral inflammation. Ambient air quality and monthly MS re...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Oikonen M,Laaksonen M,Laippala P,Oksaranta O,Lilius EM,Lindgren S,Rantio-Lehtimäki A,Anttinen A,Koski K,Erälinna JP

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent interest in antihypertensive agents, especially calcium channel blockers, has been sparked by the notion that these medications may be neuroprotective. A modest literature, with mixed results, has examined whether these medications might lower the odds or risk of Parkinson's disease (PD) or dementia. ...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Louis ED,Benito-León J,Bermejo-Pareja F,Neurological Disorders in Central Spain (NEDICES) Study Group.

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strategy for assessing the clinical importance of statistically significant treatment benefits in recent dementia drug trials is proposed. Traditional criteria for the assessment of valid inferences are helpful: the more likely the treatment effects are valid, the greater the chance that they will be clinically impo...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Rockwood K,MacKnight C

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's dementia. Whereas the exact etiology of PD remains unknown, risk of developing PD seems to be related to a combination of genetic and environmental factors. This also includes abnormal exposure to trace elements of nutrit...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Adani G,Filippini T,Michalke B,Vinceti M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spanish-language versions of standardized questionnaires are important for facilitating inclusion of Hispanic populations in epidemiologic, genetic, and clinical studies. We aimed at producing a culturally adapted Spanish translation of the Questionnaire for Verifying Stroke-free Status (QVSS), an instrument used to s...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Castillo PR,Brott TG,Alvarez S,Meschia JF

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related white matter changes (ARWMC) on brain MRI have been associated with cognitive, motor, mood and urinary disturbances. These factors are known to contribute to disability in elderly people, but the impact of ARWMC and of their progression on the transition to disability is not determined. The LADIS (Leukoara...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Pantoni L,Basile AM,Pracucci G,Asplund K,Bogousslavsky J,Chabriat H,Erkinjuntti T,Fazekas F,Ferro JM,Hennerici M,O'brien J,Scheltens P,Visser MC,Wahlund LO,Waldemar G,Wallin A,Inzitari D

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between smoking status and incident Alzheimer's disease (AD) was investigated in a random stratified sample of a biracial community in Chicago. Analyses are based on 1,064 persons (of 1,134 evaluated) who had data on smoking status, disease incidence, and key covariates such as apolipoprotein allele s...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Aggarwal NT,Bienias JL,Bennett DA,Wilson RS,Morris MC,Schneider JA,Shah RC,Evans DA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a cooperative study in The Netherlands 22 patients with lissencephaly type I were collected. In the period 1980-1988, the prevalence of lissencephaly type I in the Netherlands was 11.7 per million births (12.2 for females and 11.0 for males). The 5-year survival rate of patients with a complete or nearly complete a...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： de Rijk-van Andel JF,Arts WF,Hofman A,Staal A,Niermeijer MF

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic and progressively disabling inflammatory autoimmune disorder of the central nervous system. MS has a multifactorial etiology and is triggered by environmental factors in individuals with complex genetic risk profiles. The epidemiology of MS changes with the spatial and temporal dis...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Al-Afasy HH,Al-Obaidan MA,Al-Ansari YA,Al-Yatama SA,Al-Rukaibi MS,Makki NI,Suresh A,Akhtar S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to evaluate how the natural history of multiple sclerosis (MS) had changed over a 15-year period. We compared disability and mortality in a cohort of 83 MS patients hospitalised in the Neurological Institute of Pavia, northern Italy, from January 1, 1990, to December 31, 1991, with a similar c...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Bergamaschi R,Montomoli C,Candeloro E,Fratti C,Citterio A,Cosi V

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report anticipation in an extensive sample of myotonic dystrophy (MyD) kindreds taken from an epidemiological survey recently conducted in Guipúzcoa, Spain. Analysis of the parent-child pairs ascertained showed a mean anticipation of 2.86 decades (range 0-6). Greater anticipation occurred when the transmissor paren...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： López de Munain A,Blanco A,Emparanza JI,Martí Massó JF,Cobo A,Basauri B,Martorell L,Baiget M,Martínez Lage JM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Higher education is associated with a lower risk of dementia, possibly because of a higher tolerance to subclinical neurodegenerative pathology. Whether higher education also protects against dementia after clinical stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) remains unknown. METHODS:Within the population-bas...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Mirza SS,Portegies ML,Wolters FJ,Hofman A,Koudstaal PJ,Tiemeier H,Ikram MA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk of dementia increases by 15-28% in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). However, studies on dementia risk in type 1 DM have been neither comprehensive nor conclusive. METHODS:We carried out a cohort study involving 1,077 patients registered to have type 1 DM from 1998 to 2009 and 32,310 mat...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Kuo CL,Lu CL,Chang YH,Li CY

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevalence and incidence rates of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) are required to determine the impact of CIDP on society. We aimed to estimate the prevalence and incidence of CIDP worldwide and to determine the effect of diagnostic criteria on prevalence and incidence. METH...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Broers MC,Bunschoten C,Nieboer D,Lingsma HF,Jacobs BC

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is a time series analysis of the utilization of L-dopa derivatives (LDD) and bromocriptine by parkinsonism (PA) patients and of the age-specific PA prevalences estimated by using a previously reported model. The model combines information on LDD sales, infant mortality rates (IMR) and demographic data for S...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： de Pedro J,Rosenqvist U

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00