After discussing the chance that methamphetamine can
increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease, I was interested in reading the
research about that. Therefore, I chose to read and summarize the article, “Incidence
of Parkinson’s disease among Hospital Patients with Methamphetamine-use
Disorders.” During lecture, we learned that methamphetamine causes
neurodegeneration, which is also what occurs in patients of Parkinson's disease.
This experiment was an observational study, taking data from
all California hospitals’ discharge records. The individuals had
methamphetamine-related conditions and were at least fifty years of age when
viewed for the study. They were followed for ten years and reported any
participants developing Parkinson’s disease. One group from the hospital included
individuals that had appendicitis. This group showed no difference in
Parkinson’s disease occurrences from the control group of healthy citizens.
The group with methamphetamine consumption showed a higher number of Parkinson’s disease in comparison to other observed groups. Limitations
on the study were also discussed in the article. They claimed the hospital
admissions could create bias, as well as diagnostic errors.
The data shows methamphetamine addicts can have a higher
chance of a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis. However, more studies should be done
to increase the accuracy in the hypothesis. I would be interested in seeing
more information supporting or refuting the conclusions.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mds.23263/abstract?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false
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