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Hepatitis B and C Linked to Parkinson’s


Patients with hepatitis B or hepatitis C may have a significantly increased risk for Parkinson’s disease (PD), a new study suggests.


Previous research had tied hepatitis C, but not hepatitis B, to PD. Results of the new study showed no such relationship with PD among patients with autoimmune hepatitis, chronic active hepatitis, or HIV.


“Clinicians caring for patients with a history of hepatitis B or C should be aware of this seeming increased risk of PD among their patients, so that if neurological symptoms present, these are detected early,” lead author, Julia Pakpoor, BA, BM, Bch, Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, told Medscape Medical News.


“We hope that in the long term, our work will contribute in providing neurologists with a greater understanding of causal pathways in PD.”


The study was published online March 29 in Neurology.

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