People who often feel lonely are more likely to contract Parkinson’s disease independently of clinical depression and other risk factors such as genetics, a new study has found.
Monday in JAMA Neurology. They followed 491,603 British patients between the ages of 38 and 73 for up to 15 years, from March 2006 to October 2021.
Parkinson’s is a brain disease that causes uncontrollable shaking, stiffness, physical imbalance and lack of coordination that can gradually inhibit walking and talking. Antonio Terracciano, a co-author of the study and professor of geriatrics at Florida State University College of Medicine, said the findings are significant because previous studies with the same British sample produced similar results for U.S. adults.
“Taken together, the more likely explanation is that being lonely increases [Parkinson’s] risk,” Mr. Terracciano told The Washington Times.
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