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Parkinson’s Disease
Volume 2014, Article ID 472157, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/472157
Research Article

Nonmotor Symptoms in a Malaysian Parkinson’s Disease Population

Shahrul Azmin,1 Abdul Manaf Khairul Anuar,1 Hui Jan Tan,1 Wan Yahya Nafisah,1 Azman Ali Raymond,1 Othman Hanita,2 Shamsul Azhar Shah,3 and Mohamed Ibrahim Norlinah1

1Department of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Jalan Yaacob Latif, Cheras, 56000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2Department of Pathology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Jalan Yaacob Latif, Cheras, 56000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
3Department of Public Health, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Jalan Yaacob Latif, Cheras, 56000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Received 29 December 2013; Revised 4 March 2014; Accepted 5 March 2014; Published 1 April 2014

Academic Editor: Peter Hagell

Copyright © 2014 Shahrul Azmin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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