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How Common is Essential Tremor? Update on the Worldwide Prevalence of Essential Tremor

Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Volume 11 (2021): Issue 1
By: Elan D. Louis and  Morgan McCreary  
Open Access
|Jul 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tohm.632 | Journal eISSN: 2160-8288
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Language: English
Submitted on: May 11, 2021
Accepted on: Jun 29, 2021
Published on: Jul 9, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Essential tremor,
epidemiology,
prevalence,
definition

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