Studying The Risk Factors For Parkinson’s Disease

Doctors know that an impaired sense of smell is an early indicator of Parkinson’s Disease.Now they want to know if a smell test can help determine if people with no symptoms eventually develop the disease.”The analogy would be like diagnosing coronary artery disease before the heart attack,” says Dr. Kapil Sethi, director of the Movement Disorders Program at the Medical College of Georgia and a lead investigator the Parkinson’s Associated Risk Syndrome Study.

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Filed under: Parkinson's Disease on January 8th, 2008