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Ivan M Suzman wrote: > If a March, 1998, APDA-derived estimate of 3500 PWP's per > Congressional District, that my State Senator obtained for use in > the Maine Parkinson's Awareness Resolution, is close to accurate; Well, there are 435 Congressional districts in the U.S. 435 X 3500 = roughly the 1.5 million number, which is I think the high end of some very roughly guesstimated range of numbers. This range probably includes a v-e-r-y rough large number of undiagnosed and pre-symptomatic PWPs, and perhaps people with some forms of non-idiopathic Parkinsonism as well. It would be nice if we were given a breakdown of this estimated total PWP's in terms of what goes into it, an indication of how accurate it is, and the method by which it was determined. These components are as important as the final number itself in terms of understandig what it means, but they get dropped. BTW, does anyone know how many PWP's there are in their Congressional district, and what proportion this is of the total district population? > and if there are 6 or 7 people either in the immediate family or > > who are close friends, who are each PWP's caregivers; > > then there are 25,000 or so persons (PWP's + CG's) DIRECTLY affected > by PD in each District, on a daily basis! 25,000 is high. Nobody is impacted by pre-symptomatic PD in the sense that they experience anything or incur a financial cost. Although people who are pre-symtomatic can certainly be said to have PD, how do you count them? Phil Tompkins Hoboken NJ 60/9