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Don,
I just started reading and found Dr. Growdon's report and wondered the
same thing as you just said.
You'll all have to forgive me, I'm speaking "Parkinese" again, but I
well remember looking up and posting all the death directly attributed
to Parkinson's disease and I got that information right out of VITAL
STATISTICS OF
THE UNITED STATES.
Which is Published by the following:
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS.


Would someone please contact this Doctor and have him explain EXACTLY what
he means by
that statement.
IMOHO, I think he means that PWP's generally die from something else first,
but there are
between 6-8K people who die each year, just in the USA and the cause of
death is listed as
Parkinson's Disease.





At 07:17 PM 09/09/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>HI,
>
> > A special report from Harvard Medical School, PARKINSON'S DISEASE  - A NEW
> > HOPE,  by  John E. Growdon, M.D., Director, Memory and Movement Disorders
> > Unit,  Massachusetts General Hospital   Professor of Neurology, Harvard
> > Medical School.
> > Excerpt from flyer I received:
>
> > "Parkinson's is not fatal, but it leads to a variety of functional
> > disabilities.
>
>This is not directed at the person who sent this but, perhaps Dr. John E.
>Growdon might explain more carefully--If Parkinson's is not fatal why so
>many people actually die from it????
>
>Just curious.
>
>Don 51/3 pd+