Can work stress contribute to Parkinson's disease risk?

[Farooqji]

study suggest that occupational stress is associated with Parkinson's Disease risk, such that having a high-demand occupation is a risk factor and low control is protective.

eurekalert.org/pub_releases...

[Xenos]

Yes iqbaliqbal, from the bottom of my heart, I do think that PD is the biological stigma of profound and durable stress. Examples are everywhere.

[Grumpy77 in reply to Xenos]

If you're correct then PD would be a common occurrence with football managers (I'm not talking of American football but the real football were we have relegations). But I've not known any of them -current or former manager- to be suffering from PD. Yet managing a top European or south American football club is one of the most stressful jobs . As a fan you feel the massive stress , I can only imagine the stress on the manager would be more than a 100 times that

[Farooqji in reply to Grumpy77]

my own observation is that PD is a genetic disease and stress acts like a catalyst

[Grumpy77 in reply to Farooqji]

Yes, you remind me of the smoking analogy.

Despite that it is undisputable that smoking causes cancer, we have lots of people who never smoked but developed cancer and lots of people who chain smoke for many years but never had cancer. Rather than "causes" .... "genetically susceptible" are the key words here

[Xenos in reply to Grumpy77]

All stress are not created equal (just my opinion) : there is positive stress, that builds personality, like in sport, and negative stress that consume your life - like the chronic anxiety of a child with inadequate parents, for example.

[ion_ion]

I have a very stressful job.

[FergusonJR]

How stressful was it for those who fought world war 11, or the southerners destroyed during the ACW?

[Farooqji in reply to FergusonJR]

BTW Adolf Hitler was also suffering from PD towards the end