Fernando Cubillos

TL;DR: Consistently exercising and starting regular exercise after baseline were associated with small but significant positive effects on HRQL and mobility changes over two years, which supports improving encouragement and facilitation of exercise in advanced PD.

TL;DR: In informal caregiving resources are lower for women than men with PD, despite the finding that their caregivers report less strain than those of men, according to the National Parkinson Foundation Parkinson's Outcomes Project.

TL;DR: The MANAGE-PD (Making Informed Decisions to Aid Timely Management of Parkinson's Disease) tool as discussed by the authors is a clinician-reported tool designed to facilitate timely identification and management of patients with advancing Parkinson's disease with suboptimal symptom control while on standard therapy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used generalized linear mixed models with repeated measures to identify the predictors of whether PDQ-39 outcomes worsen over time and found that the majority of the predictor of worsening of HRQL are baseline disease and demographic characteristics that are difficult to modify.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that there may be a shift toward more conservative use of DAs, including impulse control disorders, as a result of increasing awareness of the side effects of dopamine agonists.