Study Suggests Parkinson's More Common in Hispanics
 (NY, Reuters Health, 6/5/03)

Dr. Stephen Van Den Eeden and team at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Program studied 588 people diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1994 and 95. The researchers found that Hispanics had the highest rates of the disease, which contradicts a New York study of 83 patients that found that blacks were more likely to develop the condition. As expected, rates were generally highest for older people. In addition, women of all ethnic groups except Asian were less likely to be diagnosed with the disease than men.. Now the scientists are examining environmental and genetic factors in an attempt to pinpoint why the incidence is higher for certain segments of the population than for others.