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NCT Number: NCT04713306

Gender Differences in Parkinsonian Patients- a Swedish Register Study

BACKGROUND: The complex impact of gender has been studied in different perspectives of health and disease in the literature. However, few attempts have been made to compile data from systematic disease specific registrations Swedish National Quality Registers play an important role in collecting large amounts of diagnose specific data, symptoms, and treatments. The subset Parkinson Registry has been in use for more than 20 years and are represented in all counties and hospitals where neurological care is provided in Sweden and offer optimal conditions to describe gender specific differences in the use of diagnostic tools, lead times and symptom profiles.

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Key information

Conditions

Parkinson Disease Basal Ganglia Diseases Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Movement Disorders Nervous System Diseases Neurodegenerative Diseases Parkinsonian Disorders Synucleinopathies

Age range

1 year–100 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

FUTURUM

Jönköping, SE 551 85, Sweden

About this study

Aim: To study differences between gender in diagnostic tools, pharmacological interventions, and self-reported symptoms in Parkinson´s Disease (PD).

METHODS:

Data were extracted from the Swedish Neuro Registers, one of the Swedish National Quality Registers. A mix of urban and rural parts of the country were chosen and data were divided by gender. Self-reported first experienced PD related symptom was used to define the starting point when processing the data. Zero to three years from this point was defined as early symptoms and over three years as late symptoms.

CONCLUSION:

Differences between gender were seen in all chosen aspects, both diagnostically. Distinctions were also prominent in reported NonMotorSymptoms (NMS) profiles. These findings should be important to take into consideration for patients, professional staff, and caregivers in the daily work with gender mixed PD groups.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Participants registered in the Swedish Neuro Registers.
  • Parkinson´s Disease
  • Acceptance of extraction of data

Exclusion criteria

  • non parkinsonian patients
  • Participants in the Registries who have not given allowance of extraction of data.

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. Differences between gender

    Time frame: 2006-2020

    investigations, medications,NonMotorSymptoms

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Region Jönköping County

Other Gov

Collaborators

  • Jonkoping University
  • Karolinska Institutet

Registry information

Official study title

Gender Differences in Diagnostic Tools, Medication, Time to Medication and Non-motor Symptoms in Parkinsonian Patients- a Swedish Register Study

Important dates

Study start
2006
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
Jan 19, 2021
Registry last updated
Mar 30, 2021

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