The longer a person stays in school, the more likely he or she is to get Parkinson's disease, a study released yesterday by the Mayo Clinic concludes. But the researchers themselves don't seem to be taking the results too seriously. "I don't think ...
The longer a person stays in school, the more likely he or she is to get Parkinson's disease, a study released yesterday by the Mayo Clinic concludes. But the researchers themselves don't seem to be taking the results too seriously. "I don't think ... wearing a stethoscope causes brain cells to degenerate," Dr. Jim Maraganore, a neurologist and one of the authors, said in a news release. "I wouldn't change your schooling plans or your occupation based on these findings." In the study, researchers identified medical records of everyone who had developed Parkinson's from 1976 to 1995 in Olmsted County, Minn., home of the world-renowned Mayo Clinic.
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