1. A comparison between rate of nonmotor symptom development in essential tremor and Parkinson's disease
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Hakan Serdar Sengul, Müge Kocak Sural, Bahadır Bakım, Hulki Forta, Yıldızhan Şengül, and ŞENGÜL, YILDIZHAN
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Aged, 80 and over ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Parkinson's disease ,Neurology ,Essential tremor ,business.industry ,Essential Tremor ,Montreal Cognitive Assessment ,Cognition ,Parkinson Disease ,General Medicine ,Disease ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Rating scale ,medicine ,Physical therapy ,Nocturia ,Humans ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Aged - Abstract
In the last decade our perspective on essential tremor (ET) as a pure motor system disorder has begun to change. By virtue of recent studies of nonmotor symptoms (NMSs) that are used to characterize Parkinson’s disease (PD), these symptoms have also been added to the definition of ET. There is increasing evidence to suggest that ET might not be as benign and monosymptomatic as we previously thought. The aim of this study was to evaluate nonmotor symptoms in ET, and to compare them with PD. We studied 37 ET and 23 PD patients. Tremor rate was evaluated using the Fahn–Tolosa–Marin tremor rating scale (FTM-TRS) in ET patients. The patients with PD were scored for motor symptoms using the unified Parkinson’s disease rating scale (UPDRS)-III and the Hoehn–Yahr scale. Cognitive functions were assessed with the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test. NMSs were evaluated with the nonmotor symptoms questionnaire (NMSQuest). In the ET group, the most common NMSs were forgetting things, feeling sad, nocturia, urgency, and difficulty concentrating. The mean NMSQuest score was 8.43 ± 4.14 in the ET group and 14.06 ± 5.44 in the PD group (p value
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- 2014