Gender Differences in Parkinsonian Patients- a Swedish Register Study

BACKGROUND: The complex impact of gender has been studied in different perspectives of health and disease in the literature. However, few attempts have been made to compile data from systematic disease specific registrations Swedish National Quality Registers play an important role in collecting large amounts of diagnose specific data, symptoms, and treatments. The subset Parkinson Registry has been in use for more than 20 years and are represented in all counties and hospitals where neurological care is provided in Sweden and offer optimal conditions to describe gender specific differences in the use of diagnostic tools, lead times and symptom profiles.