[Metals and oxidative stress in Parkinson's disease from industrial areas with exposition to environmental toxins or metal pollution].
[Metals and oxidative stress in Parkinson's disease from industrial areas with exposition to environmental toxins or metal pollution].
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Are blood metal levels and related biological measurements different in people with Parkinson's, particularly in an area with industrial metal pollution?
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To assess if serum metals (Cu, Fe, Zn), biological variables of their metabolism, total peroxides and antioxidants were abnormal in PD, in relation to environmental exposure.
The study compared four groups: 65 people with Parkinson's from a polluted industrial area, 28 with Parkinson's from other areas, and two groups without Parkinson's, containing 52 and 24 people.
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in 65 PD patients coming from an Industrial zone highly exposed to metal pollution (Valcamonica) with measures from 28 PD patients from no metal pollution areas of the province of Brescia and 52 healthy controls coming from Valcamonica and 24 from the province of Brescia.
The authors report higher blood zinc in people with Parkinson's. Among patients from the industrial area, copper was higher than in patients from the comparison area. Copper levels also tracked a disease-severity score.
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PD patients had higher serum concentration of zinc than controls. Only in PD patients coming from Valcamonica levels of Cu were higher than in subjects coming from the province of Brescia. Moreover, In patients with PD levels of sieric Cu significantly correlated with score of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UDPRS).
This compares groups and reports a correlation. It does not show whether metal levels contributed to illness, changed because of illness, or reflected another difference between the groups.
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levels of sieric Cu significantly correlated with score of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale
The paper supplies a possible environmental-exposure lead. The authors themselves frame an effect on progression as a possibility, not a demonstrated mechanism.
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coul be involved in the progression of the disease itself.