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Christine Anne Sutter wrote: > > In response to the latest reply - I would be very interested in knowing the > validity of those statistics & obits - as far as I have researched - no one > DIES from PD - itself. I understood PD was like AIDS - you cannot die from > AIDS - but rather from the illness you acquire as a result of the less than > adequate immune system. Am I wrong? > > Christine Anne Sutter > [log in to unmask] > Hilton Head Island, SC, USA > > >>Marjorie and others, > >> > >>We all would be very happy to know the cause of PD. Till that time every > >>treatment is more or less a mere trial because whatever causes our disease > >>has not disappeared. Epidemological research is done in the past. I have a > >>sort of abstract from 1982. One in seven patients start between 30 and 40 > >>years of age. PD exists everywhere in it seems about the same percentage > >>with an exception for black Americans and South-Africans which seem to be a > >>little less susceptible. The only "environmental" factor that is found > >>consistently is : Smokers have much less chance to become a parkie than not > >>smokers (I never smoked and sometimes this story can be a comfort for > >>people whose nicotine addiction is to strong to let them stop.) > >>Now a tendency is reported: sometimes people in the countryside should be a > >>little more prone than people in the city. > >>Combining this two things I can not help getting the suspicion that the > >>fumes of the city are protecting. > >>Parkinson himself, who for the first time described the disease, did so in > >>1817. > >>If Parkinson can be caused by modern pollution this can't be the only > >>responsible faktor. > >> > >> Ida Kamphuis > >> Holland > > > >Ida and all, > > > >I went to work at the library early one morning last week so I could > >start doing some research on PD. After talking to the Government > >Document Librarian for sometime, we decided to start our search > >in the United States, with "Vital Statistics of the United States-1991- > >Volume II-Mortality-Part A" > > > >After the reference interview, I didn't have too much time to search, but > >I did make a copy of the General Mortality Rates. > >Believe it or not PD has a classification, its #332, this is from the 9th. > >revised International Classification of Diseases, 1995. > >In 1991, in the UNITED STATES only--there are 7,455 registered deaths > >for Parkinson's Disease. This "Vital Statistics of the United States" > >is always 5 years behind. The 1992 Edition, with statistics, will be out > >after the first of 1997. > > > >I think, at least in the U.S. we should stop saying this is not a fatal > >disease!!!! > >It certainly was for those 7,455 poor souls. > > > >When I have more time I'm going to go back up to the 5th. floor (Govt.Docs) > >and try to go back at least 5 years. There is so much information in these > >books that a person could spend weeks reading them, unfortunately, they > >cannot be checked out!!!!! Even by another librarian. Also, when I ran > >the word "Parkinson's Disease" through the Newspaper and Periodical > >Abstracts ,I found over 81 obituaries listed saying this person had died > >with Parkinson's Disease. > > > >I have really gotten into research on this disease now, and will let you > >know what I find out. We all really appreciate your posts. Please > >keep in touch. > > > >As Ever, > >Marjorie Moorefield > >just another librarian > >(with PD) > > Cristine, My cousin and uncle(one of his 3 sons) had their PD progressed to a level that caused their deaths.They reached both a age around the 80. REgards, +----| Joao Paulo de Carvalho |------ + | [log in to unmask] | +--------| Salvador-Bahia-Brazil |------+