Deepak K Gupta1, Massimo Marano2, Cole Zweber1, James T Boyd1, Sheng-Han Kuo3. 1. Binter Center for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, Vermont, US. 2. Neurology, Neurophysiology and Neurobiology unit, Department of Medicine, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, IT. 3. Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York City, New York, US.
Abstract
Background: Despite the significance of tremor in Parkinson's disease (PD) diagnosis, classification, and patient's quality of life, there is a relative lack of data on prevalence and relationship of different tremor types in PD. Methods: The presence of rest tremor (RT) and action tremor (AT; defined as combination of both postural and kinetic tremor) was determined and RT severity was defined using the Movement Disorders Society Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) at baseline in the Progression Marker Initiative (PPMI, n = 423), the Fox Investigation for New Discovery of Biomarkers (BioFIND, n = 118) and the Parkinson's Disease Biomarkers Program (PDBP, n = 873) cohorts. Results: Across baseline data of all three cohorts, RT prevalence (58.2%) was higher than AT prevalence (39.0%). Patients with RT had significantly higher (Chi-square test, p < 0.05) prevalence of AT compared to patients without RT in the PPMI (40.0% versus 30.1%), BioFIND (48.0% versus 40.0%) and PDBP (49.9% versus 21.0%) cohorts. Furthermore, patients with AT had significantly (Student t-test, p < 0.05) higher RT severity that those without AT in PPMI (5.7 ± 5.4 versus 3.9 ± 3.3), BioFIND, 6.4 ± 6.3 versus 3.8 ± 4.4) and PDBP (6.4 ± 6.6 versus 3.7 ± 4.4) cohorts. In the BioFIND cohort, the prevalence of all types of tremor and their combinations significantly decreased from the off-state to on-state. Discussion: The RT is the most frequent tremor type and present in more than half of the PD patients. However, AT is also present in nearly one-third of the PD patients. Our results also indicate that RT and AT may have cross-interactions in PD, and that dopaminergic treatment influences both RT and AT. Copyright:
Background: Despite the significance of tremor in Parkinson's disease (PD) diagnosis, classification, and patient's quality of life, there is a relative lack of data on prevalence and relationship of different tremor types in PD. Methods: The presence of rest tremor (RT) and action tremor (AT; defined as combination of both postural and kinetic tremor) was determined and RT severity was defined using the Movement Disorders Society Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) at baseline in the Progression Marker Initiative (PPMI, n = 423), the Fox Investigation for New Discovery of Biomarkers (BioFIND, n = 118) and the Parkinson's Disease Biomarkers Program (PDBP, n = 873) cohorts. Results: Across baseline data of all three cohorts, RT prevalence (58.2%) was higher than AT prevalence (39.0%). Patients with RT had significantly higher (Chi-square test, p < 0.05) prevalence of AT compared to patients without RT in the PPMI (40.0% versus 30.1%), BioFIND (48.0% versus 40.0%) and PDBP (49.9% versus 21.0%) cohorts. Furthermore, patients with AT had significantly (Student t-test, p < 0.05) higher RT severity that those without AT in PPMI (5.7 ± 5.4 versus 3.9 ± 3.3), BioFIND, 6.4 ± 6.3 versus 3.8 ± 4.4) and PDBP (6.4 ± 6.6 versus 3.7 ± 4.4) cohorts. In the BioFIND cohort, the prevalence of all types of tremor and their combinations significantly decreased from the off-state to on-state. Discussion: The RT is the most frequent tremor type and present in more than half of the PDpatients. However, AT is also present in nearly one-third of the PDpatients. Our results also indicate that RT and AT may have cross-interactions in PD, and that dopaminergic treatment influences both RT and AT. Copyright:
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