People over 50 with anxiety may be up to twice as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease as their peers without anxiety, a new analysis suggests., published in the British Journal of General Practice, looked at primary care data from the United Kingdom. Researchers compared a group of 109,435 people 50 and older who were diagnosed with a first episode of anxiety between 2008 and 2018 with a control group of 987,691 people without anxiety.
Researchers said, of those in the study, 331 patients with an anxiety diagnosis developed Parkinson’s disease over the decade, and the average patient who developed the disease did so 4.9 years after their first anxiety diagnosis. After adjusting for age, lifestyle factors, mental illness and other factors, people with anxiety were still twice as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease than those without an anxiety diagnosis. Those who developed the disease were also likelier to be male and in higher socioeconomic groups.
“Anxiety is not as well researched as other early indicators of Parkinson’s disease,” Anette Schrag, a professor of clinical neurosciences at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and the study’s co-leader, said in a news. Further research should home in on anxiety, she said, in the hopes of learning how to better treat Parkinson’s disease in its earliest stages.
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