
@article{ref1,
title="A cross-sectional study of neurological disease in the veterans of military communities in Beijing",
journal="Zhonghua Nei Ke Za Zhi",
year="2010",
author="Wang, Lu-ning and Tan, Ji-ping and Xie, Heng-ge and Zhang, Xi and Wang, Weixu and Wang, Zhen-fu and Jia, Jian-jun and Zhu, Ming-wei and Zhang, Xiao-hong and Liu, Sai-nan and Sun, Hong and Gao, Zhong-bao and Shang, Yan-chang and Guo, Yan-e and Zhao, Yi-ming",
volume="49",
number="6",
pages="463-468",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence of cognitive and motor disorders as well as emotional and sleep abnormality in the veterans from military communities in Beijing. METHODS: The participants underwent a comprehensive in-person evaluation including detailed neuropsychological testing, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and special questionnaires for movement and sleep disorders. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of cognitive impairment, extrapyramidal diseases was 32.7%, 8.8%. The prevalence of mild cognitive impairment, dementia, Parkinson disease, essential tremor, anxiety and depression was 26.2%, 6.5%, 2.0%, 6.1%, 1.4% and 4.1% respectively. Prevalence of all kinds of sleep disorders ranged from 10.3% to 53.9%. The prevalence of cognitive impairment had no significant difference of sex, but were correlated to age and education, the correlation coefficient was 0.326 and -0.221 (P<0.01). CONCLUSION: Veterans from military communities had higher prevalence of cognitive impairment, extrapyramidal diseases and sleep disorders and lower that of anxiety and depression relatively.<p /> <p>Language: zh</p>",
language="zh",
issn="0578-1426",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}