Impact of Sjogren's syndrome on Parkinson’s disease: A nationwide case-control study

Ming-Chi Wu, Xun Xu, Shan-Ming Chen, Yeu-Sheng Tyan, Jeng-Yuan Chiou, Yu-Hsun Wang, Li-Chi Lin, Chyong-Mei Chen and James Cheng-Chung Wei

PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, issue 7, 1-10

Abstract: Objective: To investigate whether Sjogren’s syndrome would have an influence on the development of Parkinson’s disease. Methods: A population-based case-control study was conducted. Participants consisted of 7716 subjects with newly diagnosed Parkinson’s disease and a population of 75129 matched control subjects between 2000 and 2010. We measured the risk of Parkinson’s disease in association with Sjogren’s syndrome by using adjusted odds ratios. Results: A total of 143 Parkinson’s disease subjects (1.9%) and 893 control subjects (1.2%) suffered from Sjogren’s syndrome (p

Date: 2017
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