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A new study suggests from researchers say that a person with diabetes may have a slightly increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease. Do you think diabetic person can possibly get Parkinson's disease?
The study found out of nearly 289,000 older US adults, found that those with diabetes at the outset were more likely to be diagnosed with Parkinson's over the next 15 years.
With the 21,600 participants with diabetes, 172 (0.8%) were eventually diagnosed with Parkinson's. That compared with 1,393 cases (0.5%) among the 267,000 men and women who were diabetes-free at the study's start.
Diabetes and Parkinson's disease would seem, at first, to be unrelated to each other.
Diabetes arises when the body can no longer properly use the blood-sugar-regulating hormone insulin. Parkinson's is a brain disease in which movement-regulating cells in the brain die off or become disabled, leading to symptoms like tremors, rigidity in the joints, slowed movement and balance problems.
But Dr. Honglei Chen, of the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences said, the connection between diabetes and Parkinson's risk could mean that the two diseases share some underlying mechanisms.
On the other hand, Dr. Honglei Chen and his colleagues say, there might be something about diabetes - like a problem regulating insulin -- that contributes to Parkinson's. But that remains to be proven.
A few large studies have looked at the diabetes-Parkinson's link before, with conflicting results.
The study found out of nearly 289,000 older US adults, found that those with diabetes at the outset were more likely to be diagnosed with Parkinson's over the next 15 years.
With the 21,600 participants with diabetes, 172 (0.8%) were eventually diagnosed with Parkinson's. That compared with 1,393 cases (0.5%) among the 267,000 men and women who were diabetes-free at the study's start.
Diabetes and Parkinson's disease would seem, at first, to be unrelated to each other.
Diabetes arises when the body can no longer properly use the blood-sugar-regulating hormone insulin. Parkinson's is a brain disease in which movement-regulating cells in the brain die off or become disabled, leading to symptoms like tremors, rigidity in the joints, slowed movement and balance problems.
But Dr. Honglei Chen, of the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences said, the connection between diabetes and Parkinson's risk could mean that the two diseases share some underlying mechanisms.
On the other hand, Dr. Honglei Chen and his colleagues say, there might be something about diabetes - like a problem regulating insulin -- that contributes to Parkinson's. But that remains to be proven.
A few large studies have looked at the diabetes-Parkinson's link before, with conflicting results.
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