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Study links pesticides with Parkinson’s Reuters VIA StopLying.ca July 04, 2006 People with long-term, low-level exposure to pesticides have a 70 percent higher incidence of Parkinson’s disease than people who have not been exposed much to bug sprays, US researchers reported. Such workers include mostly farmers, ranchers and fishermen, the researchers report in the July issue of Annals of Neurology. Their study supports previous research that suggests pesticides can be linked with Parkinson’s, which is caused by the destruction of key brain cells, the team at the Harvard School of Public Health said. “The findings support the hypothesis that exposure to pesticides is a risk factor for Parkinson’s disease,” they wrote. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com Alberto Ascherio, an associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology and colleagues examined data from a 2001 American Cancer Society survey of 143,325 people. The researchers contacted those people who reported they had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s. More than 5,200 men and 2,600 women reported exposure to pesticides. “Future studies should seek to identify the specific compounds associated with risk,” the researchers said. A class of chemicals called organophosphates has been linked with Parkinson’s risk in other studies. There is no cure for Parkinson’s, which starts off with tremors and ends up paralysing and often killing patients. Globally, around 6.3 million people have Parkinson’s. About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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Study links pesticides with Parkinson’s

Reuters VIA StopLying.ca
July 04, 2006

Health People with long-term, low-level exposure to pesticides have a 70 percent higher incidence of Parkinson’s disease than people who have not been exposed much to bug sprays, US researchers reported.

Such workers include mostly farmers, ranchers and fishermen, the researchers report in the July issue of Annals of Neurology.

Their study supports previous research that suggests pesticides can be linked with Parkinson’s, which is caused by the destruction of key brain cells, the team at the Harvard School of Public Health said.

“The findings support the hypothesis that exposure to pesticides is a risk factor for Parkinson’s disease,” they wrote.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

Alberto Ascherio, an associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology and colleagues examined data from a 2001 American Cancer Society survey of 143,325 people.

The researchers contacted those people who reported they had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s. More than 5,200 men and 2,600 women reported exposure to pesticides.

“Future studies should seek to identify the specific compounds associated with risk,” the researchers said. A class of chemicals called organophosphates has been linked with Parkinson’s risk in other studies.

There is no cure for Parkinson’s, which starts off with tremors and ends up paralysing and often killing patients. Globally, around 6.3 million people have Parkinson’s.

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