Open AccessDepression and Related Factors in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease at High Altitude
Author(s) -
Yu Cao,
Gongfeng Li,
Jinsheng Xue,
Guijuan Zhang,
Sensen Gao,
Yung-Cheng Huang,
Aiqin Zhu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s300596
Subject(s) - medicine , parkinson's disease , depression (economics) , effects of high altitude on humans , altitude (triangle) , disease , altitude sickness , psychiatry , anatomy , geometry , mathematics , economics , macroeconomics
Depression seems to aggravate progression of Parkinson's disease (PD). Hypoxia stress may be one of the pathogenic factors leading to PD. We investigated the characteristics of PD and factors related to Parkinson's disease depression (PDD) at high altitude (mean altitude ≥2300 m).