The authors commented that the main advantage of the Montreal Parkinson Risk of Dementia Scale was its practicality in an office-based clinical setting.
“Featuring demographic data as well as motor and nonmotor signs, the items of the scale are already often screened for in a routine office visit of a patient with [Parkinson’s disease], with no need for biological samples, neuroimaging, or genetic testing,” they wrote. “Therefore, compiling results is rapid for the clinician during a single outpatient office visit, and the results are available without delay or requirement for statistical software.”
The study was supported by the Fonds de la Recherche Sante Quebec and the Canadian Institute of Health Research. One author declared travel and speaking fees and consultancies with the pharmaceutical, and he and two other authors declared a range of grants from other funding bodies including Fonds de la Recherche Sante Quebec. No other conflicts of interest were declared.
Biomarkers predict Parkinson’s among high-risk individuals
SOURCE: Dawson B et al. JAMA Neurol. 2018 Mar 26. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2018.0254.