title: [A cross-sectional study of neurological disease in the veterans of military communities in Beijing].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the prevalence of cognitive and motor disorders as well as emotional and sleep abnormality in the veterans from military communities in Beijing.
  
  
  METHODS
  The participants underwent a comprehensive in-person evaluation including detailed neuropsychological testing, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and special questionnaires for movement and sleep disorders.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overall prevalence of cognitive impairment, extrapyramidal diseases was 32.7%, 8.8%. The prevalence of mild cognitive impairment, dementia, Parkinson disease, essential tremor, anxiety and depression was 26.2%, 6.5%, 2.0%, 6.1%, 1.4% and 4.1% respectively. Prevalence of all kinds of sleep disorders ranged from 10.3% to 53.9%. The prevalence of cognitive impairment had no significant difference of sex, but were correlated to age and education, the correlation coefficient was 0.326 and -0.221 (P<0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Veterans from military communities had higher prevalence of cognitive impairment, extrapyramidal diseases and sleep disorders and lower that of anxiety and depression relatively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Clinical Division of South Building, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China. ln_wang301@sohu.com
authors.forename: Lu-ning
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ji-ping
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Heng-ge
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Xi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zhen-fu
authors.initials: ZF
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jian-jun
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Ming-wei
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Xiao-hong
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Sai-nan
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Zhong-bao
authors.initials: ZB
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Yan-chang
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Shang
authors.forename: Yan-e
authors.initials: YE
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Yi-ming
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003704:Dementia / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D014728:Veterans; D058014:Veterans Health