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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diabetes and of early-onset Parkinson’s disease”, said Sun and
Li, Chu Kong in Hospital and the National University of
Cheng Kung, Taiwan.
This coincides with a study on Denmark adults
published in 2011. Even so, it is impossible to ensure that the
cause is diabetes. One reason is the limited information of the
study, according to agreed Sun and Li.
“Given that we use data allowances, lack of
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information on the known risk factors of the
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Parkinson, as exposure to pesticides”, indicated.
Even so, Sun and Li clarified that the increase in the risk of
developing Parkinson’s in people with diabetes is relatively low.
Less than four annual cases recorded in the Studio by
every 10,000 diabetic adults.
“People with diabetes should not worry too much by the
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possibility of developing Parkinson”, argued.
Diabetes occurs when the body can no longer use
the hormone that regulates the level of sugar in the blood, insulin.
El Parkinson arises when the brain cells that regulate
the movement die or cease to function, which produces
joint symptoms such as tremors, rigidity, slowness of the
movements or imbalance.
For researchers, it is possible that some feature
diabetes, as the dysfunction of insulin, any
way promotes the onset of Parkinson’s, but still subtraction
try.
Source: Diabetes Care, online March 19, 2012
