Demographic and Clinical Manifestations of the Patients with Parkinson’s Disease in Cienfuegos City

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) described for the first time in 1817 by James Parkinson, is kept as the second degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. The etiology and the pathogenic mechanisms of the PD are, and possibly will continue to be it during many years, strangers. This paper is the first of its type in our environment where we plan to determine the demographic and clinical manifestations of the patients with PD looked after in our center. We studied 118 patients with diagnosis of idiopathic PD attended on specialized consultation, since June 2010 to the same month of 2011, to those which it was carried to them out survey with demographic, clinical data studies included UPDRS, Hoehn and Yahr scales. Results: the greatest number of patients there contributed it Cienfuegos (49%), there was greater frequency of the male sex on the feminine (71:47), the mean age of beginning was of 62 ± 9.9, and the mean evolution of 68 months, the greatest number of the UPDRS motor and the Hoehn and Yahr scale showed it the age group from 56 to 64 years. There existed predominance in the rural areas (81:37) and well water (71:47), in addition to of the white race (101:17), 18.8% of patients had family history of PD.