Miguel Renteria

Hello, Norman, Priya.

Thank you for the invitation.

Happy to be here.

Yeah, you did an excellent job.

Women experience more falls, more chronic pain.

And before the diagnosis, they also experience rigidity.

They also reported, more often than males, that the symptoms started on only one side of the body, either the left or the right side.

On the other hand, men had more bradykinesia, which is slowness of movement before presenting the tremor.

And they also experienced more cognitive decline.

In some cases, even diagnosis of dementia.

Depression and anxiety were also more common among women.

and sleep disorders were more common among men.

What sort of sleep disorders?

We're talking about things like sleep apnea,

in particular REM sleep behaviour disorder.

This is a disorder in which people act out their dreams.

Well, it is very important to establish that Parkinson's is neither 100% genetic or 100% the environment and that there is no single cause to most Parkinson's cases.

It is instead the cumulative effect of genes, environment, lifestyle, age, and it is extremely difficult to say that there is one single cause.

Now, what we did see in the study is that exposure to some toxicants like pesticides or herbicides

or that people were reporting working on high-risk occupations, and this is in agriculture or welding, some petrochemicals, this is substantial and requires further investigation.