Parkinson disease treatment strategies appear to have similar long-term effects on disability
Monday, March 9, 2009 - 17:28
in Health & Medicine
Patients with early Parkinson disease appear to have similar overall levels of disability and quality of life six years after beginning treatment with either levodopa or a dopamine agonist, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the May print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. However, persistent differences are seen in some effects of these medications, including motor symptoms, fluid build-up and sleepiness...