Spain is today in the ninth country with the largest number of Parkinson’s patients on this planet, a position that is not related to it … Her population weight, as it has at least thirty states with the largest number of population.
The Spanish Association of Neuroscience (SEN), on the occasion of the celebration on Friday of the International Parkinson Day, wants to suit its inhabitants.
In this case, height of the average life expectancy and the rapid aging of the Spanish population will play against them and double the annual diagnoses that are already the second most frequent neurological degeneration after the evil of Alzheimer’s, with about 10,000 new cases. Given these expectations, specialists consider it necessary for authorities to start improving resource customization to deal with increasing health requirements and enhance research, while trying to enhance healthy habits that prevent appearance.
This diseases have two times larger in men compared to women, who also suffer from greater deaths from the disease
Parkinson’s disease is a chronic and progressive pathology characterized by a gradual reduction in the ability of the brain to dopamine production, a neurotransmitter controlling, among other aspects, movement and balance. Álvaro Sánchez Ferro, coordinator of the SEN movement study group, explains that symptoms such as tremor, muscle stiffness, slow movement or instability in the position are common among those who suffer from this disease, but also from other extracts such as loss of smell, mood changes, sleeping operations, or even pre -coordination of diseases.
This diseases have two times larger in men compared to women, who also suffer from greater deaths. While age is the main risk factor known to suffer from this evil, it is not the only one. Up to 20 % of cases, one in five, occurs in people under the age of 50, and certain factors are already known, many of which are prepared for the disease.
Risk factors that can be avoided
Among the risk factors that can be avoided is lack of physical activity, social isolation, or not properly controlling the elements of blood vessels, such as blood sugar, blood pressure, or cholesterol. Likewise, exposure to pesticides, industrial solvents, or air pollution is one of the factors that seem to prefer the development of pathology. Thus, promoting prevention is the first step to be taken in the battle against a disease that does not focus today on treatments only on relieving the patient’s symptoms.
“Given the expected increase in Parkinson’s cases between the Spanish population, the disability and deaths suffered by people who suffer from these diseases, there is an urgent need to research the development of new drugs. Currently, in addition to genetic therapy, immunotherapy is explored, with the aim of developing medicines based on the unilateral antibodies that work on proteins responsible for neuronal damage. Although the truth is that until now the progress was limited, ”Dr. Sanchez Vero admits.
