More evidence associated diabetes with the risk of Parkinsons
new YORK (Reuters Health) – people with diabetes would have high risk of developing Parkinson’s, especially a relatively early ages, according to published the magazine diabetes Care. But neither the study nor the previous still prove that the diabetes is what increases the risk of developing this neurological movement disorder. In reality, the scientists suspect that diabetes and Parkinson’s disease shared underlying causes. The authors of the new study analyzed the benefits of health insurance to more than 1 million adults of Taiwan, including more than 360,000 patients with diabetes. In nine years, people with diabetes were more likely to the rest to develop Parkinson: 3.6 cases for every 10,000 people per year, compared with 2.1 cases each 10,000 people. To consider the age, sex and other diseases, the team noted that diabetes was associated with increased the risk of developing Parkinson’s, especially at ages relatively young. Women with diabetes aged between 40 and 50 years had twice risk of developing Parkinson’s than those without diabetes. And the same happened with men aged 20 to 30 years, though were barely a few cases of Parkinson’s: four between the young diabetics and two among non-diabetics. The doctors Yu Sun and Chung-Yi Li, who directed the study, they explained that the average age of diagnosis of Parkinson is about 60 years. “Our results tend to suggest a relationship between the “”...
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