Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease, which mainly occurs in the elderly. Its main clinical features are dyskinesia, such as slow movement, abnormal posture and gait when walking. At the same time, there may be some symptoms other than dyskinesia, such as decreased sense of smell, constipation, depression, sleep disorders and so on.
With the aggravation of the disease, this kind of motor symptoms and non-motor symptoms will gradually increase. In the later stage, patients often fall down because of balance disorder, and even have dysphagia and language disorder. Many patients can't take care of themselves in their later life, stay in bed for a long time, rely on others to take care of them, and their quality of life has seriously declined.
"Walking in a panic, shaking hands can't even hold chopsticks, speaking more and more vaguely, and losing a smile ..." Parkinson's patients often describe the feeling of onset as a chronic torture, just like a kind of torture, which will slowly crush people.
Second, who is more likely to get Parkinson's disease?
1. Older people:
The prevalence of Parkinson's disease in the whole population is about 0.3%. Generally speaking, the incidence rate is not very high, but as a typical chronic disease of the elderly, the prevalence rate in the elderly population has doubled.
The prevalence rate of elderly people over 65 years old is 1% ~2%, and the prevalence rate of elderly people over 85 years old is 3% ~ 5%. In other words, out of every 654.38+10,000 people, 50 people over the age of 65 suffer from Parkinson's disease. For every 654.38 million people over the age of 85, 400 people suffer from Parkinson's disease.
The growth of this number can almost be said to be "skyrocketing", and the probability of getting Parkinson's disease increases rapidly with age!
The older you get, the greater the risk.
In addition, it should be noted that although Parkinson's disease is a geriatric disease, it is not only related to age, but also related to gender.
According to the data of scientific research, the risk of Parkinson's disease in men is about 1.46 times that in women. Obviously, men are more inclined to Parkinson's disease.
2. People with family history:
Most patients with Parkinson's disease are sporadic cases, but some of them are familial Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson's disease has a certain family aggregation, so people with family history, especially those with Parkinson's disease in their immediate family members, need special attention and vigilance.
It can be seen that Parkinson's disease is no longer a patent for the elderly, and young patients in their thirties and forties are very common, even teenagers. Statistics show that this kind of "adolescent Parkinson's disease" accounts for about 10% of the total number of patients with this disease, so even young people have precedents of early onset due to family genetic factors, and young people need to be vigilant.