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Huntsville identified as a ‘hotspot’ for Parkinson’s disease, study says

Kryzyzanowski worked with Brad A. Racette of the Barrow Institute in Phoenix and Washington University researchers Susan Searles Nielsen and Jay R. Turner to study the relationship between Parkinson’s disease and air pollution using Medicare beneficiaries’ data.

Krzyzanowski told AL.com in an interview that “Huntsville is a part of the Parkinson’s disease hotspot region.”

The study analyzed county and zip-code level data and shows that certain kinds of air pollution between 1998 and 2000 correlate with the number of people who received a Parkinson’s diagnosis in 2009. Huntsville had high air pollution levels between 1998 and 2000, related to a high rate...

Reference: www.al.com

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