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Old 03-04-2020, 04:18 PM
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My thanks to Simon Griffith on PRIG for pointing out this paper:

"Rare tendency of catching cold in Parkinson's disease."
Kawaguchi N1, Yamada T, Hattori T.
Parkinsonism and related disorders, 1998
Rare tendency of catching cold in Parkinson's disease. - PubMed - NCBI

"persons with Parkinson's disease (PD) catch relatively fewer colds that are unusually mild. This tendency seems to have no clear relationship to the severity of the PD, the time after the onset of PD, or whether or not the patient is taking antiparkinsonian drugs either as mono therapy or in combination. The study found no similar phenomena among spouses of the PD patients or among patients with cerebrovascular disease. These results suggest that a low frequency of colds is a unique feature in persons with PD."

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