Prevalence and incidence of Huntington's disease: an updated systematic review and meta‐analysis

A Medina, Y Mahjoub, L Shaver… - Movement …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The incidence and prevalence of Huntington's disease (HD) based on a systematic review
and meta‐analysis of 20 studies published from 1985 to 2010 was estimated at 0.38 per …

Endocannabinoid modulation in neurodegenerative diseases: In pursuit of certainty

A Vasincu, RN Rusu, DC Ababei, M Larion, W Bild… - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Neurodegenerative diseases represent an important cause of morbidity
and mortality worldwide. Existing therapeutic options are limited and focus mostly on …

Genetic and environmental factors contributing to Parkinson's disease: a case-control study in the Cypriot population

A Georgiou, CA Demetriou, YP Christou… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting a
substantial proportion of the elderly Cypriot population. The objective of this study was to …

Prevalence of multimorbidity in the Cypriot population; A cross-sectional study (2018–2019)

M Kyprianidou, D Panagiotakos, A Faka… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Multimorbidity is defined as the co-existence of two or more chronic conditions.
As life expectancy is increasing so does the prevalence of multimorbidity. Our aim was to …

Validation of diagnostic codes and epidemiologic trends of Huntington disease: a population-based study in Navarre, Spain

E Vicente, A Ruiz de Sabando, F García… - Orphanet Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Background There is great heterogeneity on geographic and temporary Huntington disease
(HD) epidemiological estimates. Most research studies of rare diseases, including HD, use …

Investigating the dietary intake using the CyFFQ semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire in Cypriot Huntington's disease patients

CC Christodoulou, CA Demetriou, E Philippou… - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a rare progressive neurodegenerative disease characterised
by autosomal dominant inheritance. The past decade saw a growing interest in the …

Huntington's disease in Israel: A population-based study using 20 years of routinely-collected healthcare data

N Gavrielov-Yusim, Y Barer, M Martinec… - Journal of …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
Background: Huntington's disease (HD) is a rare, genetic, neurodegenerative disease.
Obtaining population-level data on epidemiology and disease management is challenging …

Identifying individuals with rare disease variants by inferring shared ancestral haplotypes from SNP array data

E Robertson, BE Grinton, KL Oliver, LG Fearnley… - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
We describe FoundHaplo, a novel identity-by-descent algorithm designed to identify
individuals with known, untyped, disease-causing variants using only SNP array data …

[PDF][PDF] Endocannabinoid Modulation in Neurodegenerative Diseases: In Pursuit of Certainty. Biology 2022, 11, 440

A Vasincu, RN Rusu, DC Ababei, M Larion, W Bild… - 2022 - academia.edu
Neurodegenerative diseases are an increasing cause of global morbidity and mortality.
They occur in the central nervous system (CNS) and lead to functional and mental …

Early retinal degeneration in Huntington's disease based on optical coherence tomography: a case-control study

S Svetozarskiy, S Kopishinskaya… - … hypothesis, discovery & …, 2020 - mehdijournal.com
Background: The purpose of this study was to analyze optical coherence tomography (OCT)
parameters of the choroid and retina in subjects with pre-manifest and manifest Huntington's …