Spatial distribution of Parkinsons disease mortality in Spain 1989-1998 as a guide for focused aetiological research or health-care intervention

摘要

BackgroundAetiologically, genetic and environmental factors having an uneven spatial distribution may underlie Parkinson's disease (PD). Undiagnosis of PD in selected regions might have limited access to treatment with levodopa and simultaneously, if present at death, determined PD underreporting at the death record. The purpose of this study was to describe and analyse municipal mortality due to PD in Spain in aetiological and interventional perspective.