{"id":124055,"date":"2021-06-21T17:23:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T00:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/rates-of-parkinsons-disease-are-exploding-a-common-chemical-may-be-to-blame"},"modified":"2021-06-21T17:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T00:23:12","slug":"rates-of-parkinsons-disease-are-exploding-a-common-chemical-may-be-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/rates-of-parkinsons-disease-are-exploding-a-common-chemical-may-be-to-blame","title":{"rendered":"Rates of Parkinson\u2019s disease are exploding. A common chemical may be to blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rates-of-parkinsons-disease-are-exploding-a-common-chemical-may-be-to-blame2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most cases of Parkinson\u2019s disease are considered idiopathic \u2013 they lack a clear cause. Yet researchers increasingly believe that one factor is environmental exposure to trichloroethylene (TCE), a chemical compound used in industrial degreasing, dry-cleaning and household products such as some shoe polishes and carpet cleaners.<\/p>\n<p>To date, the clearest evidence around the risk of TCE to human health is derived from workers who are exposed to the chemical in the work-place. A 2008 peer-reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/hero.epa.gov\/hero\/index.cfm\/reference\/details\/reference_id\/700905\">study<\/a> in the Annals of Neurology, for example, found that TCE is \u201ca risk factor for parkinsonism.\u201d And a 2011 study echoed those results, finding \u201ca six-fold increase in the risk of developing Parkinson\u2019s in individuals exposed in the workplace to trichloroethylene (TCE).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Samuel Goldman of The Parkinson\u2019s Institute in Sunnyvale, California, who co-led the study, which appeared in the Annals of Neurology journal, wrote: \u201cOur study confirms that common environmental contaminants may increase the risk of developing Parkinson\u2019s, which has considerable public health implications.\u201d It was off the back of studies like these that the US Department of Labor issued a guidance on TCE, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/sites\/dolgov\/files\/owcp\/energy\/regs\/compliance\/advboard\/parkinson_disease_draft06162020.pdf\">saying<\/a>: \u201cThe Board recommends [\u2026] exposures to carbon disulfide (CS2) and trichloroethylene (TCE) be presumed to cause, contribute, or aggravate Parkinsonism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most cases of Parkinson\u2019s disease are considered idiopathic \u2013 they lack a clear cause. Yet researchers increasingly believe that one factor is environmental exposure to trichloroethylene (TCE), a chemical compound used in industrial degreasing, dry-cleaning and household products such as some shoe polishes and carpet cleaners. To date, the clearest evidence around the risk of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}