Saturday, 9 July 2011

No relationship between obesity or diabetes and subsequent risk of Parkinson's

Obesity, diabetes, and risk of Parkinson's disease

Palacios N, Gao X, McCullough ML, Jacobs EJ, Patel AV, Mayo T, Schwarzschild MA, Ascherio A.
Movement Disorders 2011 Jul 7. doi: 10.1002/mds.23855. [Epub ahead of print]

"New research from a large cohort showing that markers for obesity and diabetes mellitus do not influence subsequent risk of developing Parkinson's. These findings are generally in keeping with other research on obesity and diabetes as risk factors and suggests that neither will be particularly helpful when trying to determine which individuals are at increase risk of Parkinson's"

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