@article{ref1,
title="Clinical correlates of fear of falling in progressive supranuclear palsy and multiple system atrophy",
journal="European journal of neurology",
year="2023",
author="Martínez-Villota, Viviana A. and Terroba-Chambi, Cinthia and Castillo-Torres, Sergio A. and Rossi, Malco and Merello, Marcelo",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Clinical correlates of fear of falling (FoF) are scarcely studied in patients with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). <br><br>OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical correlates of FoF in PSP and MSA. <br><br>METHODS: A cross-sectional study with motor , cognitive and psychiatric assessment and longitudinal evaluation of falls and FoF at 6-month follow-up. <br><br>RESULTS: Twenty-one patients with PSP-P, 22 with MSA (13 MSA-P and 9 MSA-C) and 22 healthy controls were evaluated. 76.2% of patients with PSP and 86.4%of patients with MSA had FoF regardless of falls. Berg Balance Scale (p<0.001), Tinetti Mobility Test (p<0.01), Beck Anxiety Inventory (p=0.001) and Beck Depression Inventory-II (p=0.01) correlated with FoF in patients with PSP and MSA, whereas Timed up and Go test (p=0.01) and Starkstein's Apathy Scale only in MSA (p=0.04). <br><br>CONCLUSION: Mobility, balance and gait performance as well as anxiety and depression in PSP and MSA, and apathy in MSA were determinants of FoF. These findings underline the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to FoF in neurodegenerative atypical parkinsonism.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1351-5101",
doi="10.1111/ene.15864",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ene.15864"
}