People leading normal lives go through immense trauma when Parkinson’s disease, a regenerative disorder of the central nervous system that often impairs the sufferer’s motor skills and speech strikes them. The disease affects millions of patients especially as they age and patients with disease have to depend on a support as even simple tasks become tough to handle. While the drugs could delay the onset on this disease, there is no cure yet for this disease.
Hereditary could play a major role in this disease, which is a cause for worry for the family members of the patients. A new study offers hope for people who run the risk of Parkinson’s disease due to heredity. The study reveals that regular use of over-the-counter painkillers or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) such as aspirin and ibuprofen can reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease.
Researchers from University of California Los Angeles studied around 579 men and women half of whom had Parkinson’s disease and found that those who had taken aspirin or NSAIDs two or more pills a week for at least a month at any point of their life were less likely to have Parkinson’s disease.
Women who took aspirin regularly lowered the risk of Parkinson’s disease by nearly 40 percent. How exactly these drugs work on preventing the disease is not known yet, however the researchers say that the drugs may prevent damaging inflammation in the brain.
UCLA’s Angelika Wahner, who worked on the study said,
Our findings suggest NSAIDs are protective against Parkinson’s disease, with a particularly strong protective effect among regular users of non-aspirin NSAIDs, especially those who reported two or more years of use.
This study could give hope to millions of families who run the risk of Parkinson’s due to heredity.
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