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1. Fluctuating pain in Parkinson's disease: Its prevalence and impact on quality of life

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Kanako Kurihara, Shinsuke Fujioka, Miki Kawazoe, Takayasu Mishima, Shinji Ouma, and Yoshio Tsuboi

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Parkinson's disease, Fluctuating pain, Quality of life, Non-motor symptoms, Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system, RC346-429
Abstract

Pain is a common non-motor symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, and the incidence of fluctuating pain may be improved by taking levodopa. There are only a few detailed reports regarding fluctuating pain. In this study, 331 PD patients were classified into three groups: no-pain group (67.4%), non-fluctuating pain group (22.1%), and fluctuating pain group (10.6%). We evaluated patients' background and its impact on the quality of life (QOL) of each group. The pain group exhibited higher levels of depression (p

Published
2021
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2. Fluctuating pain in Parkinson's disease: Its prevalence and impact on quality of life

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Miki Kawazoe, Kanako Kurihara, Shinji Ouma, Yoshio Tsuboi, Shinsuke Fujioka, and Takayasu Mishima

Subjects
Quality of life, medicine.medical_specialty, Levodopa, Parkinson's disease, business.industry, Incidence (epidemiology), Non-motor symptoms, Disease, medicine.disease, humanities, Neurology, Dyskinesia, Internal medicine, Fluctuating pain, medicine, Original Article, Analysis of variance, Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system, medicine.symptom, business, RC346-429, Depression (differential diagnoses), medicine.drug
Abstract

Pain is a common non-motor symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, and the incidence of fluctuating pain may be improved by taking levodopa. There are only a few detailed reports regarding fluctuating pain. In this study, 331 PD patients were classified into three groups: no-pain group (67.4%), non-fluctuating pain group (22.1%), and fluctuating pain group (10.6%). We evaluated patients' background and its impact on the quality of life (QOL) of each group. The pain group exhibited higher levels of depression (p, Highlights • Clinical characteristics of fluctuating pain in Parkinson's disease • The prevalence of pain in PD was 10.6%, of which 32.4% showed fluctuating pain. • Fluctuating pain is related to younger age of onset and severity of disease. • Pain affects the quality of life of patients with Parkinson's disease.

Published
2021

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