The study included 140 patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and 280 non-Parkinson age-matched controls to evaluate environmental risk factors associated with PD. The effect of exposure to environmental and dietary factors was determined using conditional logistic regression. This multivariate analysis showed that PD in first-degree relatives and tea drinking were the main risk factors for PD. Smoking appeared to be a protective factor. Exposure to toxic compounds was not a significant risk factor. Further research is needed to validate that tea consumption increases the risk of PD.
The Dutch protocol for rehabilitative management was developed to provide an optimal and adequate care plan for patients with ALS. It is widely used in the Netherlands.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.