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Parkinson's disease, . - Coggle Diagram
Parkinson's disease
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Treatments
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Physical activity
The Parkinson’s Outcomes Project shows that people with PD who start exercising earlier and a minimum of 2.5 hours a week, experience a slowed decline in quality of life compared to those who start later. Establishing early exercise habits is essential to overall disease management. :
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The main therapy for Parkinson's is levodopa, also called L-dopa. Nerve cells use levodopa to make dopamine to replenish the brain's dwindling supply. Usually, people take levodopa along with another medication called carbidopa. Carbidopa prevents or reduces some of the side effects of levodopa therapy—such as nausea, vomiting, low blood pressure, and restlessness—and reduces the amount of levodopa needed to improve symptoms.
one in 500 people, with a total of about 127,000 people living with the disease. Someone is diagnosed with Parkinson's every hour in the U.K. Most are 50 or older.
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