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Dr Tabish Saifee
Queen Square Private Healthcare
How common is Parkinson’s Disease?
Dr Tabish Saifee, a Consultant Neurologist Queen Square, says there is a 2 or 3% prevalence rate amongst the population which makes Parkinson’s quite common for a neurological disease.
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So in the UK, about 125,000 people have Parkinson's. And in our life spans, any one of us may have a sort of two or three percent chance of developing Parkinson's disease. So it's a pretty common disease, in terms of neurological diseases.
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