Parkinson's Disease: A Nation-Wide Observational Study

Parkinson’s Disease is a long-term progressive disease of the central nervous system and early on in the disease, the symptoms may include muscle rigidity, tremors and changes in one’s speech. It gets worse as it goes on, and there are not any cures for it but there are ways to help relieve the symptoms and help make it a little easier for people living with the disease. People don’t really know the causes of this disease, but they say it could have something to do with one’s genes and their environmental triggers. In the article, “Weight Change Is a Characteristic Non-Motor Symptom in Drug-Naïve Parkinson’s Disease Patients with Non-Tremor Dominant Subtype: A Nation-Wide Observational Study” by a numerous amount of authors, the topic of this is that they had some PD patients and compared their Non-Motor Symptoms between Parkinson’s Disease subtypes. In this study, they had 136 drug-naïve patients who had early Parkinson’s Disease, and 50 who were normal, and the people who had the disease were divided into different subtypes: tremor dominant, which don’t show as aggressive symptoms than the other subtype, non-tremor dominant do. They compared their relationship of non-motor symptoms with their quality of life between the people who didn’t have this disease and the people who did have this
It is something that is not really caused by anything but someone’s genes or their environment, and it’s something that no one can cure yet, but hopefully maybe someday someone can find a cure for it. It’s interesting to me because I’ve seen people in movies or shows who have had this disease, and it makes me think about how hard it would be to have it if I were to have it and how tough it would make everyday life because it would just make everyday tasks much tougher to do because it makes your muscles slow down and not work as well anymore like they used