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To the Editor: Bennett et al. (Jan. 11 issue)¹ further document the increasing prevalence of parkinsonism as people age. However, parkinsonism is not Parkinson's disease, and we fear that the two may be confused.

Although the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease is a clinical judgment with no confirming laboratory tests, the presence of typical resting tremor in a patient with other signs of parkinsonism is diagnostically extremely important.² In fact, of all the signs of parkinsonism studied by Bennett et al.,¹ resting tremor is most specific for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. They demonstrate that the prevalence of resting tremor does . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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