Prevalent cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease in people with Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with Parkinson's disease (PwP) are speculated to be at a low risk of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease (CVD) because they have fewer vascular risk factors and lower smoking rate. However, emerging evidence suggests that PwP are at higher risk of CVD, which introduces controversy to the notion that there is no association between Parkinson's disease (PD) and CVD. Hence, we conducted a meta-analysis to analyze the risk of CVD in PwP.

Methods

Electronic databases were searched using terms related to PD and CVD. Articles were included in the meta-analysis only if they employed clear diagnostic criteria for PD and CVD. The reference lists of the relevant articles were reviewed to identify eligible studies not found during the keyword search.

Results<

SUBMITTER: Hong CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6130276 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature