New research suggests your daily coffee habit might help delay the onset of Parkinson’s disease—but don’t count on it to lower your risk or slow its progression.
Study: Coffee consumption is associated with later age-at-onset of Parkinson’s disease. Image Credit: Kittyfly / Shutterstock
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In a recent research paper uploaded to the medRxiv preprint* server, researchers investigated the causal relationship between coffee consumption and age-at-onset (AAO) of Parkinson’s disease (PD).
They used Mendelian randomization (MR) and genetic correlation analyses with…