Pesticides from golf courses influence prevalence of Parkinson's disease: JAMA
A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association showed that the prevalence of Parkinson's disease (PD) among the local population may be influenced by pesticides used on golf courses.
Pesticide exposure is one of the environmental risk factors that has been associated with a higher risk of Parkinson's disease. It is yet unknown how golf course pesticide exposure affects the risk of Parkinson's disease. Therefore, this study was set to determine whether living close to golf courses is linked to a higher incidence of Parkinson's disease and to look at drinking water pollution as a possible exposure source using data on groundwater vulnerability and municipal well sites.
Patients with incident Parkinson's disease and matched controls from the Rochester Epidemiology Project, which ran from 1991 to 2015, were included in this case-control research. Living in water service areas with a golf course, living in water service areas in groundwater-vulnerable areas, living in water service areas with shallow municipal wells, living in water service areas with a municipal well on a golf course, and living in water service areas with a golf course were all considered. Sex, age, race and ethnicity, index year, median household income, and urban/rural categorization were all taken into account in all models.
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