Smoking, nicotine and Parkinson's disease
β Scribed by Maryka Quik
- Book ID
- 116917782
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 351 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0166-2236
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## Abstract Smoking was examined in relation to Parkinson's disease (PD) in a populationβbased study in northern Manhattan (New York City) because of its putative βprotective effect.β Using a caseβcontrol design, information on smoking and associated behaviors was obtained in structured interviews
The negative association between smoking and the risk of Parkinson's disease (PD) has been a controversial issue since it was first reported by Dorn in 1959. 1 Recent meta-analysis of prospective studies showed that smoking protects against PD with pooled relative risk of 0.51 (95% confidence interv