Projected neurodegenerative disease mortality among minorities in the United States, 1990-2040.

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：:Little is known regarding the pathogenetic factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD). We studied 63 AD patients in order to evaluate if there were clinical subtypes of AD and whether prior illnesses and life-styles were involved in the development of the disease. In our patients selected for onset of symptoms before age 65...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Ferini-Strambi L,Smirne S,Garancini P,Pinto P,Franceschi M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke and ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality rates were analyzed in Brazilian subjects older than 30 years of age from 1979 to 1996. Population estimates were based on census surveys. Mortality data were obtained from the Ministry of Health. For stroke, the age-adjusted death rate (ADR) dropped from 200 to 164 an...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： de Padua Mansur A,de Fátima Marinho do Souza M,Favarato D,Avakian SD,Machado César LA,Mendes Aldrigui J,Franchini Ramires JA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Smoking increases the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) and possibly disease progression. The reliability of self-reported smoking status is unknown in MS. We assessed the reliability of self-reported smoking status among participants in the North American Research Committee on Multiple Sclerosis (NARCOMS) Reg...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Marrie RA,Cutter G,Tyry T,Campagnolo D,Vollmer T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 'Ten Questions' Questionnaire (TQQ) is used to detect severe neurological impairment in children living in resource-poor countries. Its usefulness has been established in Asia and the Caribbean, but there are a few published studies from Africa. We evaluated the TQQ as part of a larger study of neurologi...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Mung'ala-Odera V,Meehan R,Njuguna P,Mturi N,Alcock K,Carter JA,Newton CR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:Parkinson's disease (PD) is often complicated by psychiatric comorbidity, which is likely to lead to a higher use of mental health care facilities. In addition, psychiatric symptomatology and associated mental health care use may be present even before motor symptoms and PD are diagnosed, as the pathophy...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Leentjens AF,Driessen G,Weber W,Drukker M,van Os J

更新日期：2008-01-01 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: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：:According to studies done before 1980, the multiple sclerosis (MS) prevalence rate in Italy ranged from 7.2 to 27.1 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. More recent work has consistently put the MS prevalence rate to over 30 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. If these recent data are confirmed in the future, Italy can no longer...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Sironi L,Mamoli A,D'Alessandro G,Camerlingo M,Bottacchi E

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Globally 15 million people have an acute stroke every year and one third of them die secondary to stroke events. Most research on stroke prevention and treatment is done in developed countries, yet more than 85% of strokes occur in developing countries. In particular, stroke remains an underrecognized cause ...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Kulshreshtha A,Anderson LM,Goyal A,Keenan NL

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:In this report we describe the establishment of a Neuro-Oncology Register (NOR) at the University Hospital of Maastricht, The Netherlands. The register includes data on numbers and types of primary central nervous system (CNS) tumours and neurological complications of systemic cancer. One of the objectives of the regi...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Lassouw GM,Twijnstra A,Schouten LJ,van de Pol M

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out a door-to-door survey in rural areas of the Cordillera Province, Bolivia, to determine the prevalence of the most common neurological diseases in a sample of about 10,000 inhabitants. A team of non-doctor health workers administered a standard screening instrument for neurological diseases, a slightly m...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Nicoletti A,Sofia V,Bartoloni A,Bartalesi F,Marletta C,Lo Bartolo ML,Rosado J,Le Pira F,Reggio A

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a community-based study on a cohort of 221 stroke patients followed for 3 years. In this paper, we tried to answer the following questions: Is the risk of dying increased throughout the first 3 years after stroke? What are the causes of death after the 1st month? What factors at stroke onset are independe...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Loor HI,Groenier KH,Limburg M,Schuling J,Meyboom-de Jong B

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite decades of research, there are no national estimates of the incidence or prevalence of spinal cord injury (SCI) in Canada. Our objective was to utilize the best available data to estimate the incidence and prevalence of traumatic SCI (TSCI) and non-traumatic SCI (NTSCI) in Canada for 2010. METHODS:I...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Noonan VK,Fingas M,Farry A,Baxter D,Singh A,Fehlings MG,Dvorak MF

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between hepatitis B (HB) vaccination and a first central nervous system (CNS) demyelinating event in adults. METHODS:In 1998, we conducted a multicentre, hospital-based case-control study which enrolled 402 cases of first CNS demyelinating event occurring between 1994 and 1995...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Touzé E,Fourrier A,Rue-Fenouche C,Rondé-Oustau V,Jeantaud I,Bégaud B,Alpérovitch A

更新日期：2002-07-01 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：:Since the middle of this century, a remarkable concentration of cases of neurodegenerative disease(s), referred to as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Parkinson-dementia complex (ALS/PDC), has been recognized among Chamorro natives of Guam. Intense investigations over the last 4 decades have failed to determine the e...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Wiederholt WC

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Neurosarcoidosis is a rare condition with serious health consequences. However, little is known about clinical characteristics and outcome of neurosarcoidosis in the community setting. METHODS:Patients with neurosarcoidosis were identified from a previously described cohort of patients with incident sa...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Ungprasert P,Crowson CS,Matteson EL

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:White matter lesions (WMLs) detected by cerebral magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are putatively a consequence of cerebral hypoperfusion or ischemia. We investigated the prevalence, severity and correlates of WMLs in a population-based sample of 1,920 African-American and European-American men and women aged 55-72 yea...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Liao D,Cooper L,Cai J,Toole J,Bryan N,Burke G,Shahar E,Nieto J,Mosley T,Heiss G

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:The black Caribbean population continues to grow in the US and little is known about stroke etiologies in that community. We examined stroke subtypes in 175 consecutive Haitian-born patients living in Miami, admitted for acute stroke. Ischemic stroke was diagnosed in 72%. Small vessel occlusion was the most frequent s...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Koch S,Pabon D,Rabinstein AA,Chirinos J,Romano JG,Forteza A

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine the age and sex variations in the relationship between diabetes and stroke. METHODS:This analysis was based on data from 61,327 Canadians > or =45 years of age who participated in the Canadian Community Health Survey in 2000-2001. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to evaluate the associ...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Lin M,Chen Y,Sigal RJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The excess stroke mortality among African Americans and Southerners is well known. Because a higher proportion of the population living in the 'Stroke Belt' is African American, then a portion of the estimated excess risk of stroke death traditionally associated with African-American race may be attributab...

journal_title：Neuroepidemiology

authors： Yang D,Howard G,Coffey CS,Roseman J

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00