Parkinson's partially linked to pesticides

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UCLA researchers have provided strong new evidence linking at least some cases of Parkinson's disease to exposure to pesticides. Researchers have suspected for some time that pesticides may cause the neurodegenerative disorder, and experiments in animals have shown that the chemicals, particularly the fungicide maneb and the herbicide paraquat, can cause Parkinson-like symptoms in animals. But proving it in humans has been difficult because of problems in assessing exposure to the agents.

Parkinson's is a disorder of the central nervous system that often impairs the sufferer's motor skills, speech and other functions. It is not fatal of itself, but complications often are. The disease has been recognized since the Middle Ages but became more prevalent in the 20th century. As many as 180 of every 100,000 Americans develop it.

To explore a potential connection to pesticides, epidemiologist Beate Ritz of UCLA and her graduate student Sadie Costello, now at UC Berkeley, studied public records of pesticide applications in California's Central Valley from 1974 to 1999. Every application of pesticides to crops must be registered with the state. Working with Myles Cockburn of USC, they developed a tool to estimate pesticide exposure in areas immediately adjacent to the fields.

They reported in the current issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology that people who lived next to fields where maneb or paraquat had been sprayed were, on average, about 75% more likely to develop the disease. But those who developed the early-onset form of the disease -- contracting it before the age of 60 -- had double the risk of contracting it if they were exposed to either maneb or paraquat alone and four times the risk if they were exposed to both. In most cases, the exposure occurred years before the onset of the disease. Exposure to other pesticides did not appreciably alter the risk.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/04/parkinsons-partially-linked-to-pesticides.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I heard that malathion contributed to Parkinson's (another pesticide).

[jwirr]

2. This cannot be totally true because our family had several branches

that had parkinson's in the 1890s.

[GoesTo11]

3. Check out your logic

Partially linked means you could have Parkinsons without it, but it could also cause it.

[hedgehog]

5. Depending on where your family lived, they may well have been exposed to other

noxious chemicals coming from, for example, the burning of coal.

[jwirr]

6. Rural Illinois.

[hedgehog]

10. Don't forget the coal burning stoves in the kitchen and parlor.

Even wood smoke has contaminants.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. My dad grew up in western Kansas in a small town that was surrounded by wheat fields

When he was diagnosed with Parkinsons (about 25 years ago) the doctors told him they suspected exposure to agricultural chemicals as a child.

[Psychic Consortium]

7. We live in a toxic soup

brought to you by corporate and military interests.

Obama will work on bringing our children clean food, air and water along
with education and health care.

Generations to come will thank him. We will be a smarter and healthier
people as result of Mr. Obama's work.

[kimmerspixelated]

11. Well said!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. People who develop parkinsons often have a weak or ineffective

form of the super-oxide-dismutase thingy... making it more difficult for them to clear stale neurotransmitters as well as pesticides from the brain.

http://www.lef.org/protocols/neurological/parkinsons_disease_01.htm


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1: Rev Neurol (Paris). 2009 Jan;165(1):15-30. Epub 2008 Jun 24.Click here to read Links
Parkinson disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Tauopathies, TDP-43 and SOD mutations
Article in French

Le Forestier N, Lacomblez L, Meininger V.

Pôle neurologique, fédération des maladies du système nerveux, hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris cedex 13, France. [e-mail]

In addition to a large number of clinical descriptions of atypical cases, recent pathological, biochemical and genetic studies challenge the view that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a disorder restricted to the pyramidal motor system. Relations between ALS, Parkinson disease, fronto-temporal dementia, progressive supranuclear paralysis, and cortico-basal degeneration have now been identified. We propose a review of the topic and discuss the contribution of various clinical and pathological features leading to consider motoneuron diseases as neurodegenerative processes included in a broad spectrum of tauopathies.

[azul]

9. Imagine an economic racket where people getting sick and dying

expensively benefits a powerful, monstrous healthcare industry.

What if epidemiology could tell the real story of dangerous chemicals in food and water and air that are poisoning people, would the truth get traction in a media where the agriculture and medical and drug industries have so much advertising clout? Who would fund the epidemiological studies, academia, government? No conflict with business ties there?

The incentive is to not be held liable and make quick profits for the chemical and agriculture businesses which dovetails nicely with healthcare's incentive to treat rather than cure of prevent disease.


The real losers are the people sacrificed in this money making racket. They are kept in the dark and fed BS and more toxic stuff. People are valuable to the system only as far as they can lose their savings and go into debt to pay the medical and drug bills, or to have governments borrow or pay for these bills for their citizens.

[kimmerspixelated]

12. Touche'!

Mainstream Medicine is a sickness industry, to call themselves a health industry is a farce.