New research from Carolin Gabbert, and colleagues published in the Journal of Neurology indicates that drinking coffee, smoking and aspirin usage are associated with age at onset in idiopathic Parkinson’s disease. In contrast to the findings for coffee, black tea drinking was not associated with age at onset. The association of ibuprofen was not as strong as the association with aspirin while other anti-inflammatory medications showed no association at all with AAO. These findings are consistent with previous research by Ratner et al., 2014 who also found smoking to be associated with a later onset of sporadic Parkinson’s disease. These findings add to the growing body of evidence implicating environmental factors in the age at onset of Parkinson’s disease.
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Link to original article on PubMed
Link to Ratner et al. 2014
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