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ReviewJournal of Parkinson's disease2025

Beyond the brain: The colorectal impact of Parkinson's disease.

Sidra Khan, Aparna Gupta, Aman Agarwal, Mohammad Ajaz Alam, Sai Gautham Kanagala, Rohit Jain

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Review in Journal of Parkinson's disease, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sidra KhanDow Medical College, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.ORCID 0009-0001-7918-5647
Aparna GuptaMaulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India.ORCID 0000-0002-7762-8192
Aman AgarwalMaulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India.
Mohammad Ajaz AlamAvalon University School of Medicine, Willemstad, Curaçao.ORCID 0009-0007-9869-0634
Sai Gautham KanagalaMetropolitan Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9901-0916
Rohit JainInternal Medicine, Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-3824-1755

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a rapidly developing neurodegenerative disorder characterized by degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the basal ganglia of the brain. Its prevalence is estimated to exceed 1.2 million cases in the United States by 2030. Emerging evidence suggests that PD may originate in the gut and hence is linked to gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunctions such as inflammatory bowel disease and GI cancers. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers seen worldwide. It shares several risk factors with PD, including advancing age, male gender, genetic predispositions, and environmental exposures. Although these shared factors indicate a possible correlation, the studies evaluating this relationship have suggested inconsistent results. Some research proposes an increased risk of CRC in PD patients, potentially due to overlapping genetic and inflammatory pathways. Alternatively, others argue an inverse relationship due to opposing underlying mechanisms of neuro degeneration in PD and cellular proliferation in CRC. This narrative review explores the intricate relationship between PD and CRC and seeks to understand how neurodegenerative and malignant diseases may overlap.

Indexed as

Colorectal NeoplasmsInflammatory Bowel DiseasesParkinson DiseaseHumansalpha-synucleincarcinogenesiscolorectal neoplasmsgastrointestinal microbiomegeneticsnerve degenerationParkinson's disease

Identifiers

PMID40990598
PMCPMC13347544

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