[A cross-sectional study of neurological disease in the veterans of military communities in Beijing].
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.
Wang
Lu-ning
LN
Department of Neurology, Clinical Division of South Building, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China. ln_wang301@sohu.com
Tan
Ji-ping
JP
Xie
Heng-ge
HG
Zhang
Xi
X
Wang
Wei
W
Wang
Zhen-fu
ZF
Jia
Jian-jun
JJ
Zhu
Ming-wei
MW
Zhang
Xiao-hong
XH
Liu
Sai-nan
SN
Sun
Hong
H
Gao
Zhong-bao
ZB
Shang
Yan-chang
YC
Guo
Yan-e
YE
Zhao
Yi-ming
YM
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