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GerryW 08-29-2012 05:31 PM

Caffeine for treatment of Parkinson disease: A randomized controlled trial.
 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22855866

johnt 08-29-2012 09:43 PM

Thanks for bringing this paper to our attention.

First, let me apologize: I'm unable to access the whole paper; my comments are based on the abstract alone.

My take on it is that the effect is small: the reduction in the UPDRS score was 4.69 points. That's out of 176 [1]. So, we have less than a 3% improvement.

Reference

[1] http://img.medscape.com/fullsize/701...8977_UPDRS.pdf


John


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