Higher Education Level, Greater Disability Associated With Treatment Timing in Parkinson's Disease
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 13:07
in Health & Medicine
Individuals who have higher levels of education and who are more impaired by Parkinson's disease appear to require treatment for their symptoms earlier than do other patients, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the September print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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