[What is the Best Initial Treatment for Parkinson's Disease? New Clinical Practice Guideline and My Personal Opinion].
[What is the Best Initial Treatment for Parkinson's Disease? New Clinical Practice Guideline and My Personal Opinion].
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Original abstract
Over the last few decades, several delayed-start trials have suggested that early introduction of dopamine replacement therapy can improve the prognosis of Parkinson's disease (PD). Moreover, several observations support that L-dopa is non toxic to normal and diseased substantia nigra in humans. Thus, the clinical practice guideline 2018 for PD recommends L-dopa as an initial treatment for PD, in principle. More recently, several potential disease-modifying therapies have been reported to be effective. Furthermore, several recent studies suggest that exercise can be beneficial in delaying disease progression.