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20976741

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
14
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-10-26
pubmed:abstractText
The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of fatigue in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and compare this to the general population. Factors associated with fatigue were investigated by linear regression. Fatigue was assessed by the fatigue questionnaire. The mean age of the 176 PD patients (41% women) was 69 years (range 35-90), and the mean UPDRSIII was 22.3 (SD 11.7). Fatigue levels (means) were significantly higher in PD patients compared with the general population; however, effect sizes were moderate for women for physical and total fatigue indicating clinically significant differences here only. Only female PD patients had more chronic fatigue than the general population. Fatigue was related to characteristics of PD but also to sleep disturbance, depression, and gender. This population-based study demonstrates that fatigue is a common symptom in PD patients, but compared with the general population, clinically significant differences were only found for female PD patients.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1531-8257
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
30
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2456-60
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Fatigue in Parkinson's disease: prevalence and associated factors.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, Akershus University Hospital, Norway. abeiske@online.no
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't