Gout and the risk of Parkinson’s disease in older adults: a study of U.S. Medicare data

Abstract Background In the presence of limited available data, our objective was to assess the association of gout with the risk of incident Parkinson’s disease (PD) in adults 65 years or older. Methods We used the 5% random sample of Medicare claims data from 2006 to 2012 to examine the association...

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Main Authors: Jasvinder A. Singh, John D. Cleveland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-01-01
Series:BMC Neurology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12883-018-1234-x