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Thanks for the clarification. Leta 53age now/53age at dx/53age at first sx? Have had tremor since 40, runs in family. No one thought it was PD til now. ---Doug McCorkle <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Leta Anderson wrote: > >> I'm fairly new to the list. Could someone tell me what the #'s behind > >> the names mean? > > and Robert M. Johnson responded: > > The numbers behind my name mean the following: > > (current age)/(age at PD diagnosis)/(estimated age of onset) > > > I'd always used the "age now/years since onset" format myself and hadn't really > noticed that there was another format. I had to research it, of course, and in > the last couple of digests, I found: > > 47/10/8 > (explained by the poster as: age now/age dx/age first symptoms) > 51/41/37 > 54/9 > 57/12 > 67/9 > 77/3 > 44/16 > 74/50/45 > > 11/9/98 (I think that was just the message date, though :) ) > > Guess from now on I'll need to clarify my format to avoid ambiguity. :) > > - Doug > cg for Mom age 64/ age at dx 42 > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com