what is incidence and prevalence of parkinson's disease? can someone provide it with references..?

I wish teachers would stop asking this question until there is a way to generate accurate answers. Currently there are only to states in the USA which keep this kind of prevalence and incidence information.

There are two bills in Washington now which are in committee waiting for enough co-sponsors. I am very disappointed in one Senator from Ohio who either couldn't be bothered or simply didn't read the correspondence he received asking for his support/sponsorship of the National MS and Parkinson's Disease Registries Act. In the House the bill is HB-1362 and in the Senate it is S.1273.

You can read more about the value of such a bill and find links to the Parkinson's Action Network template letter - which can be adapted and then sent to your legislators.

http://parkinsonsfocustoday.blogspot.com/2010/02/t...

What this bill will enable is data collection from several sources because at present gathering the information is much like the blind men and the elephant. Each man is aware of only a small section and the image does not actually make an elephant. We need to be creating a statistical image of this elephant in order to target areas of treatment, areas of research, demographics and so on.

The statistics that were compiled in the last two decades no longer reflect with high accuracy the numbers you are looking for nor do they represent a true numeric image of how many, where, how often, concentrations and the like. Make no mistake these numbers are important.

And since you need some information along that line, I'm simply going to provide the links to the sites which have the information. Just make sure that you understand the difference between incidence and prevalence.

This is an interesting source but it is not the one I was searching for - sorry forgot to bookmark it.

http://viartis.net/parkinsons.disease/prevalence.h...

This is link to a number of articles at the CDC in regards to all PD articles including genetic stats.

http://www.cdc.gov/search.do?subset=&queryText=par...

http://www.propeller.com/story/2010/01/30/us-parki...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleUR...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC516663...

http://www.muschealth.com/movementdisorders/parkin...

http://biomed.brown.edu/Courses/BI108/BI108_1999_G...

From the US Census

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2009/tables...

This is the one you wanted:

http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/p/parkinsons_disease...