
Vikas Kotagal, M.D., M.S.
Associate Professor, Neurology
Director, Ann Arbor VA Parkinson Disease Consortium
Dairy intake may increase risk of Parkinson's disease in men, according to investigators. Men of European ancestry with a genetic marker predicting dairy consumption had significantly greater risk of Parkinson's disease than individuals without the marker, suggesting a causal relationship between dairy intake and Parkinson's disease, lead author Cloe Domenighetti, MSc, a PhD student at UVSQ, Universite Paris Sud, and colleagues reported.