Parkinson's disease and wearable devices, new perspectives for a public health issue: an integrative literature review

SUMMARY Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, with an estimated prevalence of 41/100,000 individuals affected aged between 40 and 49 years old and 1,900/100,000 aged 80 and over. Based on the essentiality of ascertaining which wearable devices have clinical literary evidence and with the purpose of analyzing the information revealed by such technologies, we conducted this scientific article of integrative review. It is an integrative review, whose main objective is to carry out a summary of the state of the art of wearable devices used in patients with Parkinson's disease. After the review, we retrieved 8 papers. Of the selected articles, only 3 were not systematic reviews; one was a series of cases and two prospective longitudinal studies. These technologies have a very rich field of application; however, research is still necessary to make such evaluations reliable and crucial to the well-being of these patients.RESUMO A doen ça de Parkinson figura como a segunda doença neurodegenerativa mais comum. Sua prevalência é estimada de 41 por 100.000 pessoas entre 40 e 49 anos a 1.900 por 100.000 pessoas com 80 anos ou mais. Baseando-se na essencialidade de averiguar os dispositivos vestíveis que possuem evidências clíni cas literárias e com o objetivo de analisar as informações reveladas por tais tecnologias, temos a construção deste artigo científico de revisão integrativa. Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa que tem como princip...
Source: Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research