Tracers for Paralysis Agitans in Epidemiological Research
作者:
Jesus de Pedro,
Urban Rosenqvist,
期刊:
Neuroepidemiology
(Karger Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 3,
issue 2-3
页码: 97-107
ISSN:0251-5350
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1159/000110846
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Drug use;Epidemiology;Health care;Paralysis agitans;Parkinson's disease;Tracer
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
A mathematical model has been constructed to estimate the prevalence of parkinsonism from register information on the use of a tracer drug in a defined geographical area. The prevalence of parkinsonism was estimated for several European countries using data on rates of L-dopa derivatives in 1980. The estimates were compared with data from community-based surveys of parkinsonism. The precision of the estimates as calculated by the coefficient of variation ranged between 1.6 and 6.9% and the accuracy as measured by the standard deviation of the percent error was 9.1 %. Up-to-date community-based data are not available. Using this calibrated model, the prevalence of parkinsonism in Sweden was estimated as 167.9/100,000.
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