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PARKINSON DISEASE

Prodromal Parkinson disease: do we miss the signs?

Nature Reviews Neurology volume 15, pages 437–438 (2019)Cite this article

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Patients present to general practitioners with a variety of symptoms that eventually turn out to be caused by early Parkinson disease. Now, methods to calculate Parkinson disease risk in general practitioner settings are becoming available.

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Postuma, R.B. Prodromal Parkinson disease: do we miss the signs?. Nat Rev Neurol 15, 437–438 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-019-0215-z

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