{"id":25504,"date":"2020-10-07T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T08:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=25504"},"modified":"2020-10-07T08:42:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T08:42:34","slug":"can-coffee-reduce-parkinsons-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=25504","title":{"rendered":"Can Coffee Reduce Parkinson’s Risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TUESDAY, Oct. 6, 2020<\/p>\n

Caffeine<\/a> may reduce the risk of Parkinson’s<\/a> disease in people who have a gene mutation associated with the movement disorder, researchers report.<\/p>\n

“These results are promising and encourage future research exploring caffeine<\/a> and caffeine<\/a>-related therapies to lessen the chance that people with this gene develop Parkinson’s<\/a>,” said study author Dr. Grace Crotty, of Massachusetts General Hospital.<\/p>\n

“It’s also possible that caffeine<\/a> levels in the blood could be used as a biomarker to help identify which people with this gene will develop the disease, assuming caffeine levels remain relatively stable,” Crotty added in a news release from the journal Neurology<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The study was published online Sept. 30 in the journal.<\/p>\n

Previous studies have shown that caffeine may protect against Parkinson’s in people with no genetic risk factors. This new study focused on a mutation in the LRRK2 gene that increases the risk of Parkinson’s.<\/p>\n

Not all people with this gene mutation develop Parkinson’s disease, so scientists are trying to pinpoint other contributing genetic or environmental factors.<\/p>\n

Could coffee — or its lack — be one of them?<\/p>\n

This study compared 188 people with Parkinson’s disease to 180 people without the disease. Both groups had people with and without the LRRK2 gene mutation.<\/p>\n

Among people with the gene mutation, those with Parkinson’s had a 76% lower concentration of caffeine in their blood than those without Parkinson’s. Among people without the mutation, those who had Parkinson’s had a 31% lower concentration of caffeine in their blood than those without Parkinson’s.<\/p>\n

People with Parkinson’s who had the gene mutation consumed 41% less caffeine a day than the people with and without the gene mutation who didn’t have Parkinson’s.<\/p>\n

The study assessed people at one point in time, so it doesn’t help researchers understand any long-term effect caffeine may have on Parkinson’s risk or how it may affect the disease’s progression, Crotty noted.<\/p>\n

Also, the study doesn’t prove that caffeine consumption directly reduces the risk of Parkinson’s; it only shows an association.<\/p>\n

— Robert Preidt<\/p>\n

\"MedicalNews\"
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