depression in older adults and the disorders of sleep in those older than 60 years could be a symptom of early Parkinson’s although not characteristic of the nurs tremors occur rmedad. The above was stated by Rodrigo Ramos, of the Department of neuroscience of the campus of health at the University of Guadalajara.
Depression in older adults may be the announcement of a character neurodegenerative disease.
“Therefore it is critical to not underestimate it even if there are no motor symptoms, which appear until there is a significant neuronal loss of dopamine,” added the specialist at a conference with regard to the day world of Parkinson’s disease that is commemorated on April 11.
Other symptoms that occur in older adults and which are considered as precursors of this condition are alterations in the State of mood, changes in some gastrointestinal reflexes and the sleep disorders, which can occur up to for five years prior to the diagnosis, he added. Mal de Parkinson in older adults in Mexico Ramos recalled that 3% of the world’s population suffers from this disease of a neurological nature and the incidence is 13.4 cases per every 100,000 adults of more than 60 years.
The World Health Organization estimates that 10 million people have some of the manifestations of Parkinson’s and it is expected that by 2030 this figure will double due to the demographic transition. Parkinson’s is the second neurodegenerative disease in the elderly patient, although increasingly frequent are persons below age 50 who have developed this illness which represent 4% of the cases. For his part, the head of the service of functional neurosurgery at the Civil Hospital Guadalajara, Rodrigo Mercado said that limb tremor “is the latest symptom and it occurs in people over 70 years”.
He said that seven of every 10 patients who are diagnosed come with tremor to the first appointment with the doctor and 80% of patients will present it at some point. He pointed out that the person can identify the earliest symptoms such as alterations in posture and gait, slowness in the generation of movements, alterations in the reflections as well as a marked joint stiffness. The rigidity and slowness of movements have an asymmetric start and it is more common that occur in the non-dominant side, i.e. on the left to those who are right-handed and on the right for left-handers.
“It is most obvious when they perceive that limitation in his hand more useful in general stiffness and slowness is the earliest and occurs between 50 and 60 years and has a much faster evolution”, he stressed. The doctors agreed that comprehensive care of the patient should be given by an interdisciplinary group with neuropsychologists and neuropsychiatrists addressing the emotional and affective reciprocation that characterize this disease such as depression, the failures of attention and demented processes that may be confused with other disorders such as the Alzheimer.En this note:
