All Headline News - Smoking Linked To Parkinson's Prevention - March 6, 2006:
Miami, FL (AHN) - It has long been known that smoking offers some protection against developing Parkinson's disease and now a leading Australian researcher has discovered why.
Yifu Deng of QUT's School of Public Health studied the genetic role between smoking and the development of Parkinson's disease with 400 people who had Parkinson's disease and 400 people without it.
Deng found that smokers with a specific gene who metabolized cigarette smoke compounds quickly were less likely to be protected from the disease than those who metabolized the chemical compounds more slowly.
He says, 'It seems that if the chemical compounds stay in the body longer they are more likely to have a preventative effect.”
Even though there is a link between cigarette smoking, Deng admits it is not known how the cigarette smoke compounds protected against Parkinson's.
Parkinson's disease is a common degenerative neurological disease in the elderly.
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Miami, FL (AHN) - It has long been known that smoking offers some protection against developing Parkinson's disease and now a leading Australian researcher has discovered why.
Yifu Deng of QUT's School of Public Health studied the genetic role between smoking and the development of Parkinson's disease with 400 people who had Parkinson's disease and 400 people without it.
Deng found that smokers with a specific gene who metabolized cigarette smoke compounds quickly were less likely to be protected from the disease than those who metabolized the chemical compounds more slowly.
He says, 'It seems that if the chemical compounds stay in the body longer they are more likely to have a preventative effect.”
Even though there is a link between cigarette smoking, Deng admits it is not known how the cigarette smoke compounds protected against Parkinson's.
Parkinson's disease is a common degenerative neurological disease in the elderly.
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