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Younger age at onset of sporadic Parkinson’s disease among subjects occupationally exposed to metals and pesticides

Overview of attention for article published in Interdisciplinary Toxicology, December 2014
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Title
Younger age at onset of sporadic Parkinson’s disease among subjects occupationally exposed to metals and pesticides
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Interdisciplinary Toxicology, December 2014
DOI 10.2478/intox-2014-0017
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Marcia H. Ratner, David H. Farb, Josef Ozer, Robert G. Feldman, Raymon Durso

Abstract

An earlier age at onset of Parkinson's disease (PD) has been reported to be associated with occupational exposures to manganese and hydrocarbon solvents suggesting that exposure to neurotoxic chemicals may hasten the progression of idiopathic PD. In this study the role of occupational exposure to metals and pesticides in the progression of idiopathic PD was assessed by looking at age at disease onset. The effects of heritable genetic risk factors, which may also influence age at onset, was minimized by including only sporadic cases of PD with no family history of the disease (n=58). Independent samples Student t-test revealed that subjects with occupational exposure to metals and/or pesticides (n=36) were significantly (p=0.013) younger than unexposed controls (n=22). These subjects were then divided into three groups [high (n=18), low (n=18), and unexposed (n=22)] to ascertain if duration of exposure further influenced age at onset of PD. One-way ANOVA revealed that subjects in the high exposure group were significantly (p=0.0121) younger (mean age: 50.33 years) than unexposed subjects (mean age: 60.45 years). Subjects were also stratified by exposure type (metals vs. pesticides). These results suggest that chronic exposure to metals and pesticides is associated with a younger age at onset of PD among patients with no family history of the disease and that duration of exposure is a factor in the magnitude of this effect.

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Unknown 46 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 17%
Student > Postgraduate 5 11%
Student > Bachelor 4 9%
Other 4 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Other 8 17%
Unknown 14 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 24%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 11%
Neuroscience 5 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 4%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 14 30%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 September 2023.
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#4,113,052
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#53,618
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Outputs of similar age from Interdisciplinary Toxicology
#5
of 13 outputs
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