Diabetes May Raise Risks of Parkinson’s Disease
Posted on April 18, 2011, 6 a.m. in
Diabetes |
Parkinsons Disease |
People with diabetes may have a slightly increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease, suggests a U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) study involving nearly 289,000 older U.S. adults. Of 21,600 participants with diabetes, 172 (0.8%) were diagnosed with Parkinson's over a 15-year follow-up period, as compared with 1,393 cases (0.5%) among the 267,000 men and women who were diabetes-free at the study's start. When the researchers accounted for other factors -- like age, weight and smoking habits -- diabetes itself was linked to a 41% increase in the risk of future Parkinson's.
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Qun Xu, Yikyung Park, Xuemei Huang, Albert Hollenbeck, Aaron Blair, Arthur Schatzkin, Honglei Chen. “Diabetes and Risk of Parkinson’s Disease.” Diabetes Care April 2011 34:910-915.
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