Objective: To estimate the prevalence of Idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD) within patients attending a movement disorder clinic at tertiary hospital in Kuwait

Background: PD is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the elderly especially beyond the age of sixty, and the most commonly seen movement disorder in neurology clinics. PD is expected to increase in prevalence with the increase in average life expectancy in Kuwait

Methods: A hospital based descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in 2015 at the movement disorder clinic of Ibn Sina Hospital, a tertiary hospital in Kuwait. All demographic and clinical data were registered. Diagnoses are coded according to the 8th revision of the international classification of diseases (ICD) in 1977–1993 and thereafter according to the 10th revision (ICD-10).

Results: A total of 646 attended movement disorder clinic, 529 (81.8%) of them met the diagnostic criteria of PD. Males were significantly prevalent in PD cohort (63.14 versus 36.9%; P<0.01). PD is more frequent in patients above 60 years (67.3% versus 32.7%; p < 0.001). The mean age of PD onset was 63.24± 14.55. No significant differences in the age of PD onset in men and women (63.40 ± 15.04 versus 63.03± 13.92 years; p < 0.75). Exposure to insecticide/Gas oil was in 22.7%, use of antipsychotic in 3%, and salbutamol in 4.5%. Family history of PD was found in 18.2%. The most common used drug in our cohort was L dopa (75.8%), followed with dopamine agonist (72.8%) and amantadine in 6.1%. Deep brain stimulation was done for 9.1% while 1.5% had thalamtomy

Conclusions: PD is the commonest movement disorder among patients attending the movement disorder clinic in Kuwait. It is higher in males and in the age group older sixty

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