Parkinson’s is being written off as a minor ailment because of a “woeful lack of knowledge” of the condition, campaigners warn today. By Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent 7:00AM GMT 10 Dec 2012 Comments Three in four people (73 per cent) cannot recognise any symptom other than tremor, according to a survey commissioned for Parkinson’s UK. A similar proportion (77 per cent) admitted to having little or no knowledge of the condition, which affects one person in 500 in Britain, or about 127,000 people. While Parkinson’s is almost exclusively associated with tremor, it causes a wide range of other problems. Tell-tale visible signs of the degenerative brain...
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