The findings showed that people with Parkinson\u2019s disease had significantly lower levels of caffeine in their blood than people without the disease, even if they consumed the same amount of caffeine. Thus, testing the level of caffeine in the blood may provide a simple way to aid the diagnosis of Parkinson\u2019s disease, the researchers said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrevious studies have shown a link between caffeine and a lower risk of developing Parkinson\u2019s disease, but we haven\u2019t known much about how caffeine metabolises within the people with the disease,\u201d said Shinji Saiki, MD at the Juntendo University School of Medicine in Tokyo.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf these results can be confirmed, they would point to an easy test for early diagnosis of Parkinson\u2019s, possibly even before symptoms are appearing,\u201d added David G. Munoz, MD, at the University of Toronto. \u201cThis is important because Parkinson\u2019s disease is difficult to diagnose, especially at the early stages,\u201d Munoz noted.<\/p>\n
For the study, published in the journal Neurology, the team involved 108 people who had Parkinson\u2019s disease for an average of about six years and 31 people of the same age who did not have the disease and consumed about two cups of coffee per day.<\/p>\n
Their blood was tested for caffeine and for 11 byproducts the body makes as it metabolises caffeine. They were also tested for mutations in genes that can affect caffeine metabolism. The caffeine level was an average of 79 picomoles per 10 microliters for people without Parkinson\u2019s disease, compared to 24 picomoles per 10 microliters for people with the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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