{"id":3771,"date":"2017-09-04T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T11:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2017-09-04T11:27:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T11:27:27","slug":"asthma-medicine-may-cut-parkinsons-risk-by-half-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/asthma-medicine-may-cut-parkinsons-risk-by-half-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Asthma medicine may cut Parkinson\u2019s risk by half: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medicine used to treat asthma may halve a person\u2019s risk of developing Parkinson\u2019s disease, claims a study that could pave the way for new treatments for the chronic disease.<\/p>\n<p>Parkinson\u2019s is a disease with unknown causes. It destroys the brain cells that control body movements. Shivering, stiff arms and legs and poor coordination are typical symptoms of Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at University of Bergen (UiB) in Norway discovered that medicine against asthma and blood pressure is linked to the risk of getting Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>They found that while the use of asthma medicine halves the risk of getting Parkinson\u2019s, one type of medicine against high blood pressure doubles the risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur analysis of data from the whole Norwegian population has been decisive for the conclusion in this study,\u201d said Trond Riise, professor at the University of Bergen (UiB).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur discoveries may be the start of a totally new possible treatment for this serious disease. We expect that clinical studies will follow these discoveries,\u201d Riise added.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers analysed more than 100 million Norwegian prescriptions ordered over the last 11 years in Norway.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, the treatment of Parkinson\u2019s was linked to prescriptions of asthma medicine and the medicine for high blood pressure. It enabled the researchers to see the connection between medicine use and illness.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicine used to treat asthma may halve a person\u2019s risk of developing Parkinson\u2019s disease, claims a study that could pave the way for new treatments for the chronic disease. Parkinson\u2019s is a disease with unknown causes. It destroys the brain cells that control body movements. Shivering, stiff arms and legs and poor coordination are typical [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}