Danish researchers at Aarhus University Hospital say Parkinson’s might actually be two diseases, not one as previously thought.
This emerging information can help doctors craft more specialized and patient-centered treatments to meet the specific attack of the disease.Researcher Per Borghammer says the following about their discovery:“With the help of advanced scanning techniques, we’ve shown that Parkinson’s disease can be divided into two variants, which start in different places in the body.
For some patients, the disease starts in the intestines and spreads from there to the brain through neural connections. For others, the disease starts in the brain and spreads to the intestines and other organs such as the heart.”As the research.
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