There could be several causes for this - the most likely is the
improvement in diagnostics, primarily related to a treatment.
There is a good correlation between education and publicity from the
manufacturers of drugs and improvement in diagnostics.
The second is that from info I've seen there is a "ramp down" of dopamine
and that starts at a young age (20's-30's) IF, repeat IF one extrapolates
from levels of measured dopamines in PD'ers. The articles I read were
not very well researched, they had not had a high degree of peer review
and the samples were not gathered in a statistically random manner.
Sorry, but I'm sure there is a clear need and market to improve
diagnotics for PD which may improve understanding of the disease.
COLMAN
Wendy, Nancy, Debbie or Colman Mullin
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On Tue, 14 Feb 1995, Charles Barasch wrote:
> I was just wondering today about a subject I've never seen
> addressed. From what I've heard, there seems to be an increase
> in "young-onset" PD. (I guess "young" is relative; I'm
> considered young for PD, but still too old to play for the
> Yankees, even as a replacement player.) It's unknown why
> there's this increase, but the most common theory I've seen is
> that it's caused by things environmental. Has anyone explored
> the possibility that there's a connection with some illness we
> had as children, similar to the connection between PD and the
> flu of 1918?
>
> Charles Barasch ([log in to unmask])
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