What Predicts Mortality in Essential Tremor? A Prospective, Longitudinal Study of Elders
Zubair A, Cersonsky TEK, Kellner S, Huey ED, Cosentino S, Louis ED. What Predicts Mortality in Essential Tremor? A Prospective, Longitudinal Study of Elders. Frontiers In Neurology 2018, 9: 1077. PMID: 30581416, PMCID: PMC6292933, DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2018.01077.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchRisk of mortalityGeriatric Depression ScaleEssential tremorHazard ratioCDR scoresFinal multivariate Cox modelHigher geriatric depression scaleLower Montreal Cognitive Assessment scoreUnivariate Cox regression modelOlder ageCox proportional hazards modelMontreal Cognitive Assessment scoreHigher Clinical Dementia Rating scorePredictors of mortalityClinical Dementia Rating scoreMultivariate Cox modelCox regression modelMean baseline ageDementia Rating scoreHigher CDR scoreProportional hazards modelCommon neurologic diseasesCognitive Assessment scoreIndependent predictorsMore falls