Prevalence of Parkinson's disease in the Republic of San Marino

Abstract

A prevalence survey on Parkinson's disease (PD) was performed in the Republic of San Marino, which is the smallest independent state in the world, and is located near the Adriatic coast, within Italy. On April 30, 1986, it had a population of 22,322. We found 34 cases of PD (17 men, 17 women). Crude prevalence ratio per 100,000 population was 152 (154 for men, 150 for women) with an age-adjusted ratio of 185 (both sexes). This study shows that the prevalence of PD in the Mediterranean area of South Europe is similar to that in North Europe and the United States.

Prevalence of Parkinson?s disease and other types of Parkinsonism

“…In our study the response rate in phase 1 was 86 %, which is similar to the response rates obtained in the Europarkinson Collaborative study (Gironde 71 %, Italy 80 %, Rotterdam 68 %, Girona 84 %, Pamplona 82 %) [4,13], and 78.5 % in phase 2 and 100 % in phase 3. There are not significant differences between the responders (R) and non-responders (NR) in either of the two phases taking into account the sex and age (table 2).…”

Prevalence, Duration and Severity of Parkinson's Disease in Germany: A Combined Meta-Analysis from Literature Data and Outpatient Samples

“…A total of 10 of these studies were conducted in Italy [16,17,19,23,24,26,28,29,30,35], followed by 6 studies in the United Kingdom [27,31,32,33,36,38]. Notably, none of the studies were conducted in Germany.…”

“…Notably, none of the studies were conducted in Germany. Of these, 4 were conducted using a door-to-door design [14,18,24,26] and 12 of the studies were cross-sectional based on medical records [16,19,22,25,27,31,32,33,34,35,36,38,] and 3 of the studies were assigned a low quality [22,31,38]. The pooled prevalence estimates for all age and gender categories are displayed in Table 3.…”

“…A sum of 11 studies reported prevalences in at least one of the age categories 65-74, 75-84, and ≥85 years [14,15,16,19,20,21,24,27,32,36,37]. Using only these studies in the meta-analysis, a pooled prevalence of 1,078.71/100,000 was estimated for the German population aged 65 years and above.…”

“…The systematic review comprised 44 studies estimating prevalence or incidence rates of PD of which 21 studies reported age- and gender-specific prevalence as well as the size of the underlying population [14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34]. To supplement these data by studies that were published after 2004, an additional systematic literature search was performed using the same search strategy as described by von Campenhausen et al [10] (Fig.…”