Suicide risk among patients with Parkinson disease

What The Study Did:

Researchers investigated whether Parkinson disease was associated with an increased risk of suicide among a large group of patients in Taiwan.

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Pei-Chen Lee, Ph.D., of the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences in Taipei, Taiwan, is the corresponding author.

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