Parkinson's disease susceptibility to obesity

U.S. experts recently published in "Neurology" magazine, a study shows that the upper arm too much fat in the future of middle-aged are particularly vulnerable to suffering from Parkinson's disease. While other parts of the back above the fat content as well as body mass index (BMI) are suffering from such diseases may be related to the risk, but that the upper arm back triceps Department of fat content but with the strongest correlation: the highest than the lowest The risk of suffering from the disease increased three-fold.


University of Virginia School of Medicine, Dr. Robert D. Abbott, and so on, in an on-going for more than three decades of the Honolulu heart disease research project carried out a comprehensive comparative analysis of data derived from the above conclusions. The data relating to the 8000 case of some Asian men, aged 45-68 years old. Experts in its report pointed out that even ruled out a number of other common factors, such as family history, smoking, dietary habits and activities, and so on, when middle-upper arm fat content also increased its troubles on the possibility of Parkinson's disease Is closely related to, and this will go a long way in their symptoms have not appeared before any substantive of those high-risk individuals will make a timely diagnosis of disease.