Key points from article :
Drinking tea or coffee may reduce risk of Parkinson’s disease (PD).
Involved 369 participants with PD and 197 without it, studying age and BMI.
The odds of having the disease decreased with increased caffeine consumption.
"Both caffeine and urate possess neuroprotective properties.”
"They both have protective properties in animal models of PD."
Effects of caffeine have yet to be studied in a long-term PD trial.
Identifying factors linked to lower likelihood of PD may lead to slowing the disease.
Research by Harvard Medical School, published in Journal of Parkinson’s Disease.
