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17673256

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-9-18
pubmed:abstractText
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common cause of the parkinsonian syndromes and the most frequent neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease. Because of the ageing of Western populations, an increasing number of persons will be affected with PD in the future and neither curative treatments nor preventive measures have been identified. PD is considered as a multifactorial disease, resulting from the effect of environmental factors and genetic susceptibility. Increasing age and male sex appear to be associated with an increased risk of PD. In addition, recent epidemiological studies have identified environmental exposures that influence the risk of PD. This review provides an overview of the epidemiologic evidence for environmental etiologies in PD; we will focus on two environmental exposures that have been quite consistently associated with PD -- cigarette smoking and pesticide exposure -- and will summarize briefly the findings for other exposures. Understanding the mechanisms underlying these epidemiological associations is an essential step for the understanding of the etiology of this neurodegenerative condition and, ideally, to develop neuroprotective drugs.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0022-510X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
262
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
37-44
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Epidemiologic studies of environmental exposures in Parkinson's disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Inserm, U708, Neuroepidemiology, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France. elbaz@chups.jussieu.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review