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Rapid response to:

Practice Therapeutics

Initial drug treatment in Parkinson’s disease

BMJ 2015; 351 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h4669 (Published 18 September 2015) Cite this as: BMJ 2015;351:h4669
Symptomatic treatment of Parkinson’s disease infographic
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Rapid Response:

Re: Initial drug treatment in Parkinson’s disease

In a recent multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled, clinical trial, earlier administration of levodopa in combination with carbidopa did not have a disease-modifying effect or any alteration of dyskinesia rates.
Reference
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1809983

Competing interests: No competing interests

29 May 2019
Stavros Saripanidis
Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Thessaloniki, Greece