Session Information
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Session Title: Classification of Movement Disorders
Session Time: 1:45pm-3:15pm
Location: Les Muses Terrace, Level 3
Objective: The main objective of current study was to determine the rate of prevalence of neurodegenerative movement disorders at different clinical practices in Hyderabad, Pakistan.
Background: All the body movements are controlled by neurons of brain. Therefore, Neurodegenerative diseases are affect different brain parts progressive that may leads to the improper functioning of nerve cells that control the body movements. These neurodegenerative diseases include Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson‘s disease, Huntington diseases, multiple system atrophy, essential tremor, myoclonus and Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
Method: This is an observational and cross-sectional study. All the patients between 18-80 years of age were included for a period of six months. A total of 200 patients were enrolled who visited at 10 different locations of Hyderabad. The data includes the patient and disease information were recorded in the data sheet.
Results: Majority of male patients (71%) were reported as compared with female (29%) during this study and the average age of patients are around 65 years. The most prevalent Neurodegenerative movement disorders were Parkinson’s disease (24%) followed by chorea (17%) and essential tremor (16%). Autonomic complications such as feeling anxious (65%), nocturia (38%) and Low mood and feeling sad(37%), whereas urinary urgency was stated by 29% of patients, memory problems (53%), and Feeling of light-headedness was observed by 52% of patients. The most common problem related to sleep are insomnia (34%).In Motor symptoms mostly muscle stiffness (62%) was reported in patients.
Conclusion: Parkinson’s disease is more prevalent in our population. Autonomic complications anxious and Motor symptoms like muscle stiffness are more common in Neurodegenerative movement disorders. In future, these types of studies will be conducted to evaluate the relationship of various factors with Neurodegenerative disease and movement disorders.
To cite this abstract in AMA style:
M. Arain. Prevalence of Neurodegenerative movement disorders in different clinical Practices of Hyderabad, Pakistan [abstract]. Mov Disord. 2019; 34 (suppl 2). https://www.mdsabstracts.org/abstract/prevalence-of-neurodegenerative-movement-disorders-in-different-clinical-practices-of-hyderabad-pakistan/. Accessed June 14, 2025.« Back to 2019 International Congress
MDS Abstracts - https://www.mdsabstracts.org/abstract/prevalence-of-neurodegenerative-movement-disorders-in-different-clinical-practices-of-hyderabad-pakistan/