Umeå University's logo

umu.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Gender distribution of patients with Parkinson's disease treated with subthalamic deep brain stimulation: a review of the 2000-2009 literature
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Occupational Therapy. Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Clinical Neuroscience.
UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK; Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK.
UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK.
Show others and affiliations
2011 (English)In: Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, ISSN 1353-8020, E-ISSN 1873-5126, Vol. 17, no 3, p. 146-149Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Purpose: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) has been the mainstream surgical procedure for advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD) during the last decade. Reports from a few individual centres have hinted that women who receive STN DBS are under-represented. We aimed to evaluate the gender distribution of patients with PD who had received STN DBS during the last ten years, and to discuss the findings in relation to studies on gender prevalence of PD.

Methods: A search of the PubMed database of clinical papers in English language related to STN DBS between 2000 and 2009 was conducted. Care was taken to minimize redundancies in reporting of published patients. The proportion of men and women were expressed in total and according to pre-defined geographic regions.

Results: One hundred and thirty five papers were eligible for review. The gender of the patients was specified in 119 papers on a total of 3880 patients, of which 63% were men. According to geographic origin of publications, the percentage of men with STN DBS was 68% in North America, 62% in Europe, 69% in Australia and 50% in Asia.

Conclusions: The proportion of male patients who undergo STN DBS seems to exceed the reported male/female ratio of patients with PD.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier , 2011. Vol. 17, no 3, p. 146-149
Keywords [en]
Parkinson’s disease, Subthalamic nucleus, Deep brain stimulation, Gender, Sex
National Category
Neurosciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-41902DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2010.12.002ISI: 000288475100002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-79951549221OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-41902DiVA, id: diva2:408073
Available from: 2011-04-03 Created: 2011-04-03 Last updated: 2023-03-23Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Hariz, Gun-MarieHamberg, Katarina

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Hariz, Gun-MarieHamberg, Katarina
By organisation
Occupational TherapyClinical NeuroscienceFamily Medicine
In the same journal
Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
Neurosciences

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 389 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf