Treatment of hemorrhoids is divided by the cause of symptoms, into internal and external treatments. Accurately classifying a patient's symptoms and the relation of the symptoms to internal and external hemorrhoids is important.
Note also that the average life expectancy after being diagnosed with Parkinson's is about 9 years -- hence, those who participated were already at this point at the beginning of the study.
At that point, after having had Parkinsonâs for an average of 17 years (they were now on average 73 years old), 50 (22%) were still alive but with dementia, and 37 (16.5%) were still alive and non-demented (the percentage is only slightly increased by subtracting those who refused to continue participating).