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Report released on survival rates of Parkinson's disease

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A new report released in the January issue of the Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, reveals that demographic and other clinical factors may be associated with the survival rate of patients suffering from Parkinson's disease.

A common neurodegenerative disease among senior citizens, Parksinson's disease research has led to conflicting data on the survival rates of patients suffering from the ailment, with researchers noticing sex and race as significant determiners of survival. Women and Hispanic and Asian patients had a lower risk of death than white men, while patients suffering from dementia had a greater risk of death than those not suffering from this cognitive impairment.

"We demonstrate that dementia occurs commonly in patients with incident PD 65 years and older; this had the strongest effect on age-adjusted survival among the variables that we studied," the authors stated. "Our data highlight the need for prevention of or treatment for dementia in patients with PD because of its effect on survival."

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