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Prevalence of oropharyngeal dysphagia in Parkinson’s disease : A meta-analysis

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In this article, the authors performed a meta-analysis to estimate the prevalence of oropharyngeal dysphagia in Parkinson's patients, using subjective outcomes and objective measures.
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This article is published in Parkinsonism & Related Disorders.The article was published on 2012-05-01. It has received 393 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Oropharyngeal dysphagia & Dysphagia.

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Gastrointestinal Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease

TL;DR: Bowel management for these people must remain empirical until well-designed controlled trials with adequate numbers and clinically relevant outcome measures become available, according to the conclusion from the latest Cochrane review on treatment of bowel dysfunction in central neurological diseases.
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Dysphagia in Parkinson's Disease

TL;DR: An overview on current stages of epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of PD-associated dysphagia is given, which might be helpful for neurologists, speech-language therapists, and other clinicians in their daily work with PD patients and associated swallowing difficulties.
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Gastrointestinal Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease

TL;DR: The clinical features of gastrointestinal dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease are described and information regarding the potential role of the enteric nervous system and the gut microbiome in the genesis of Parkinson's disease is addressed.
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Dysphagia: current reality and scope of the problem

TL;DR: A unified field of deglutology is developing, with new professional profiles to cover the needs of all patients with dysphagia in a nonfragmented way, as well as marked advances in understanding the pathophysiology of these conditions.
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Systematic Reviews in Health Care : Meta-Analysis in Context

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Predictors of aspiration pneumonia: how important is dysphagia?

TL;DR: Dysphagia was concluded to be an important risk for aspiration pneumonia, but generally not sufficient to cause pneumonia unless other risk factors are present as well, and a dependency upon others for feeding emerged as the dominant risk factor.
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Gastrointestinal dysfunction in Parkinson's disease.

TL;DR: There is growing recognition that gastrointestinal dysfunction is common in Parkinson's disease (PD). Virtually all parts of the gastrointestinal tract can be affected, in some cases early in the disease course as discussed by the authors.
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Speech impairment in a large sample of patients with Parkinson's disease

TL;DR: Voice was found to be the leading deficit, most frequently affected and impaired to a greater extent than other features in the initial stages, and articulation was the most frequently impaired feature at the lowest level of performance.
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