Exploring the layers of fatigue in Parkinson’s Disease: A comprehensive analysis of its prevalence and contributing factors

Filipe Sarmento, Griffin Lamp, Venkat Srikar Lavu, Achyutha S. Madamangalam, Jagan Mohan Reddy Dwarampudi, Qingqi Yuan, Alfonso Enrique Martinez-Nunez, Julia Choi, Kara A. Johnson, Coralie de Hemptinne, Joshua K. Wong · 2024

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Filipe Sarmento and co-authors wrote a 2024 study on fatigue in Parkinson's disease. Fatigue is a common but under-recognized symptom that does not involve movement, and it weighs heavily on quality of life. It often arrives mixed with other non-motor symptoms, which makes it hard to spot and treat.

The team used a large, well-tracked cohort database to measure fatigue at the start and up to ten years after symptoms began. Fatigue was scored from one item of a standard Parkinson's rating scale. Statistical models then tested how fatigue links to other symptoms and traits. The authors aim to map how common fatigue is and what travels with it. Their goal is earlier detection and better care for a symptom patients rank among the worst.

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CREATORFilipe Sarmento, Griffin Lamp, Venkat Srikar Lavu, Achyutha S. Madamangalam, Jagan Mohan Reddy Dwarampudi, Qingqi Yuan, Alfonso Enrique Martinez-Nunez, Julia Choi, Kara A. Johnson, Coralie de Hemptinne, Joshua K. Wong
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE27 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11626731

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