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Considerations for trials of disease modifying treatments in Parkinson disease

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Parkinson disease (PD) symptomatic treatment has been one of the seminal neurologic success stories of the last half-century. With the advent of levodopa, PD longevity has increased and now is… Click to show full abstract

Parkinson disease (PD) symptomatic treatment has been one of the seminal neurologic success stories of the last half-century. With the advent of levodopa, PD longevity has increased and now is only 1 year short of actuarial predictions.1 However, PD-linked disability progressively increases after many years. Patients with PD in my clinical practice commonly ask, “When will we have the cure?”

Keywords: modifying treatments; treatments parkinson; trials disease; parkinson disease; disease modifying; considerations trials

Journal Title: Neurology
Year Published: 2020

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