Not Signed In - Characteristics Of Patients At Increased Risk For Compulsive Gambling Associated With Taking Parkinson's Meds
Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:00 AM EST
... Patients with Parkinson's disease who are younger when they develop the condition, have a personality trait known as novelty-seeking or whose personal or family history includes alcohol abuse may be more likely to develop pathological gambling as a side effect of medications used to treat their condi [click link for full article] ...
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- Compulsive gambling
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Parkinson's Disease
- Smoking Cessation and Continued Risk in Cancer Patients
- Risk Factors
- Increased risk of infection
- Increased risk for tuberculosis
- Increased risk of falls and injury (from low blood pressure)
- Increased risk of heart attack from untreated diabetes and high cholesterol
- Security Risk Assessment
- Cardiac Risk
- Early development of male sexual characteristics
- High Risk Pregnancy
- Youth Risk Behaviors
- Parkinson's Disease Medications
- Newborn Care
- Taking Care of Your Voice
- Gambling
- Seizures (in about half of patients)
- Gambling addiction
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