title: Prevalence of essential tremor in the Parsi community of Bombay, India.
abstract: A door-to-door survey for neurologic diseases was conducted in a community of 14,010 people (Parsis living in colonies in Bombay, India). Neurologists used defined diagnostic criteria to evaluate persons with positive results on the screening survey. Two hundred thirty-three people (104 men; 129 women) were identified as having essential tremor. The overall prevalence ratio was 1663.1 [corrected] per 100,000 population. Age-specific prevalence ratios increased with age. Age-adjusted prevalence ratios were similar for men and women. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first community-based survey for essential tremor in Asia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroepidemiology, Bombay Hospital, India.
authors.forename: N E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Bharucha
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Bharucha
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Bharucha
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Bhise
authors.forename: B S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Schoenberg
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007492:Iran / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D012067:Religion; D014202:Tremor / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology*