Parkinson's Disease
A study conducted by several researchers from the University of Oxford and various other research facilities in the United Kingdom has linked type 2 diabetes to Parkinson's disease. The mechanism of this connection has not yet been clarified.
The study, published in June 2018 in the medical journal Neurology, included…
- 2,017,115 people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and
- 6,173,208 individuals without diabetes.
Participants with type 2 diabetes had a 32 percent higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease than participants without diabetes. Participants with type 2 diabetes with complications had a 49 percent higher risk of developing the disease, and participants aged 25 to 44 had more than three times the odds.
The researchers speculated that participants with genes for type 2 diabetes might also have genes for Parkinson's disease, or some mechanism involved in causing type 2 diabetes might also cause the added disease. More research is needed.
About 10 million patients worldwide live with Parkinson's disease. It is usually diagnosed in...
- people aged 60 and over, but approx
- 4 percent are diagnosed in individuals aged 50 or younger.
- It is almost twice as common in men than in women.
Parkinson's disease is caused by the destruction of brain cells that produce a molecule called dopamine. Possible reasons for this destruction include…
- genetics,
- disease,
- head trauma and
- exposure to pesticides and herbicides...

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