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Use of smell test identification in Parkinson's disease in Mexico: A matched case‐control study
Author(s) -
RodríguezViolante Mayela,
Lees Andrew J.,
CervantesArriaga Amin,
Corona Teresa,
SilveiraMoriyama Laura
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
movement disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.352
H-Index - 198
eISSN - 1531-8257
pISSN - 0885-3185
DOI - 10.1002/mds.23354
Subject(s) - audiology , test (biology) , parkinson's disease , psychology , disease , population , medicine , identification (biology) , clinical psychology , biology , paleontology , botany , environmental health
Smell tests can be useful in the differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) but are affected by cultural factors. Currently there is no smell test tailored for the Mexican population but the brief smell identification test (B‐SIT) was created as a cross‐cultural SIT. We have created a translation of this test into Spanish adapted to the Mexican population and have applied it to 70 PD patients and 70 age‐ and gender‐matched controls. The B‐SIT differentiated PD and controls with 71.4% sensitivity and 85.7% specificity, when subjects were divided into two age groups. © 2010 Movement Disorder Society