Age: People usually develop the disease around the age of 60 or older.
Heredity: Parkinson’s disease in a close relative increases the chances of developing the disease.
Sex: Men are more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease than women.
Pesticide: Exposure to benomyl, paraquat, ziram, maneb, and several types of organophosphate pesticides has an association with Parkinson’s disease.
Heavy metals and the workplace: Welders may develop symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease, including slowness of movement in the arms and hands, speech problems, and reduced facial expressions by exposure to heavy manganese metal.
Head Injuries: It causes the death of dopaminergic neurons which may lead to Parkinson’s disease.
Air Pollution: It acts on the biological pathways that are involved in Parkinson’s disease causing an accumulation of toxic alpha-synuclein deposits, neuro-inflammation, and an altered brain immune response.
Diet and Lifestyle: Theseare related to the development and progression of Parkinson’s disease.
Cooking meat: Heterocyclic amines (HCAs) are chemicals that are produced during high-temperature meat cooking. They are toxic to the dopaminergic neurons which are affected in Parkinson’s disease.
Vitamin D plays an important role in maintaining good balance and muscle strength as well as regulating the normal function of brain cells. Thus, Vitamin D deficiency is related to Parkinson’s disease.
Exercise: Regular and higher levels of physical activity improve balance and decreases the risk of Parkinson’s disease.
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