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| Goulart,F.O.; Godke,B.A.; Borges,V.; Azevedo-Silva,S.M.C.; Mendes,M.F.; Cendoroglo,M.S.; Ferraz,H.B.. |
| We evaluated the frequency of fatigue in geriatric patients with and without Parkinson's disease (PD) and correlated it with depression and excessive daytime sleepiness. We evaluated 100 patients from Hospital São Paulo, 50 with PD from the Neurologic Outpatient Clinic and 50 with non-neurologic diseases or oncologic diseases from the Geriatric Outpatient Clinic (controls). All patients who scored 28 or more on the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) were considered to have fatigue. Also, all patients were submitted to a structured interview to diagnose depression by the criteria of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV, 4th version) and were evaluated by the Modified Impact of Fatigue Scale and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESE) to detect excessive... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Parkinson's disease; Fatigue; Depression; Excessive daytime sleepiness. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2009000800014 |
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