Abstract
Non-motor symptoms in patients with Parkinson’s disease in Babol, North of Iran
Highlights
Non-motor symptoms (NMS) are common in Parkinson’s disease
This descriptive-analytic cross-sectional study was performed on 109 patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) who were referred to the clinic at Ayatollah Rouhani Hospital in Babol in 2017-2018
The significance level of all tests was less than 0.05. This cross-sectional study was performed on 109 patients with PD, the mean age of the patients was 70.59 ± 9.69 years (46-97 years of age) and 61 cases (56%) were male
Summary
Non-motor symptoms (NMS) are common in Parkinson’s disease. It can be predominant as the disease advances, thereby constituting a major source of disease burden for patients. This cross-sectional study was performed on 109 patients with Parkinson’s disease in Ayatollah Rouhani Hospital in Babol, North of Iran, during 2017-2018. Age and education of the patients with cardiovascular symptoms and attention / memory had a significant relationship (P < 0.05). The severity of the disease and ageing were statistically significant with the prevalence of the NMS in patients. Non-motor symptoms (NMS) are common in Parkinson’s patients to the extent that in two studies approximately 100% of patients had at least two NMSs [6,7]. Current understanding of NMS is incomplete, as a result of the absence of standardization of the out-
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