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- Title
Daytime Sleepiness, Agonist Therapy, and Driving in Parkinson Disease.
- Authors
Comella, Cynthia L.
- Abstract
Editorial. Explains the author's concern about the safety of prescribing the non-ergot dopamine agonists to patients with Parkinson disease (PD) who drive. Link between agonist therapy and excessive daytime sleepiness and the sudden onset of sleep in patients with PD; Question of the frequency of daytime sleepiness in patients treated with other medications; Study of excessive daytime sleepiness and sudden-onset sleep in PD on page 455 of this issue.
- Subjects
PARKINSON'S disease patients; DOPAMINE agonists; DROWSINESS; AUTOMOBILE drivers; BRAIN diseases; HEALTH; PATIENTS; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2002, Vol 287, Issue 4, p509
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1001/jama.287.4.509