Prevalence of stroke in Parkinson's disease: A postmortem study
- 22 July 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Movement Disorders
- Vol. 17 (4), 772-774
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.10199
Abstract
The results of previous epidemiological studies of the relationship between Parkinson's disease and stroke have been conflicting; some showing a reduced risk of ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke during life, and others indicating an increased likelihood of stroke-related death. We compared the frequency of cerebral infarcts and haemorrhages at postmortem in 100 cases of pathologically verified idiopathic Parkinson's disease and 100 age-matched control brains. No significant differences were found in the numbers of infarcts or haemorrhages or stroke-related deaths between the two groups. Our findings do not indicate either a protective effect against stroke, or a greater susceptibility to death from stroke, in the population studied. © 2002 Movement Disorder SocietyKeywords
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