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Falls in Parkinson Disease
Falls are a major risk for Parkinson disease patients (PD). We sought to understand why patients fall. In one study we followed 404 PD patients for a year, 204 of who fell at least once. We did not distinguish between single and recurrent fallers. In a second study we followed 249 different patients for a year, 205 of whom fell once and 44 fell more than once (recurrent fallers). In the first s...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease & Parkinsonism
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2161-0460
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0460.1000248