ArticleTremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.)2024
WHIGET and TETRAS Ratings of Action Tremor in Patients with Essential Tremor: Substantial Association and Agreement.
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- Does the Severity of Arm Tremor in Essential Tremor Correlate with Impaired Balance?Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Tremor: Clinical Frameworks, Network Dysfunction and Therapeutics.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Audible tremor: Analysis of the validity of audible information in assessing tremor severity.Parkinsonism & related disorders · 2025Article
- Baseline Depressive Symptoms as a Predictor of Incident Dementia in a Prospectively Followed Cohort of Elders with Essential Tremor.Neuro-degenerative diseases · 2024Article
- Patient-reported treatment satisfaction in essential tremor: levels of satisfaction and predictors of satisfaction.Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders · 2024Article
- Subjective Sleep Disturbance and Lewy Pathology: Data from a Cohort of Essential Tremor Brain Donors.Neuro-degenerative diseases · 2024Article
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Background: Evaluating tremor severity is a critical component of diagnosing and clinically managing patients with essential tremor (ET). We examined the comparability of tremor severity ratings derived from two frequently used tremor rating scales: the Washington Heights-Inwood Genetic Study of Essential Tremor (WHIGET) rating scale and the Tremor Research Group Essential Tremor Rating Scale (TETRAS). Methods: A trained assistant administered and videotaped a neurological examination, including eight items assessing upper limb action tremor (arms outstretched, arms in the wingbeat position, finger-nose-finger maneuver, and drawing of Archimedes spirals). An experienced movement disorders neurologist reviewed the videos and assigned WHIGET and TETRAS ratings. We calculated associations between TETRAS and WHIGET ratings using Spearman rank order correlations. Subsequently, we collapsed these ratings into four tremor severity categories (absent, mild, moderate, severe) and then two broader tremor severity categories (absent/mild, moderate/severe). We calculated weighted Kappa coefficients to assess agreement between category assignments based on the TETRAS and the WHIGET. Results: Spearman's Conclusion: Analyses revealed substantial strength of association and substantial to near perfect agreement between items rated with the WHIGET and TETRAS scales. These data indicated that ratings provided by each scale are highly comparable.
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