Smoking, Exhaled Carbon Monoxide, and Risk of Parkinson Disease
Clara Bueno Lopez, Andri Iona, Iain Turnbull, Huaidong Du, Yiping Chen, Ling Yang, Alexander Tinworth, Zhengjie Shen, Kshitij Kolhe, Pei Pei, Canqing Yu, Dianjianyi Sun, Jun Lv, Junshi Chen, Robert Clarke, Rory Collins, Richard Peto, Liming Li, Fiona Bragg, Zhengming Chen · 2026
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Clara Bueno Lopez and co-authors test whether a gas in exhaled breath tracks Parkinson disease risk, in a study of smoking. Their paper from 2026 uses a China cohort of over half a million adults aged thirty to seventy nine, signed up from 2004 to 2008 across ten areas. Smoking has long tracked with lower Parkinson rates, but the mechanism is murky.
Over about twelve years, 1,131 Parkinson cases and 2,949 cases of other nerve decay diseases were logged through death and health records. Breath carbon monoxide was measured at entry, alongside self told smoking. Risk models compared smokers and, among never smokers, breath gas levels, against Parkinson and other diseases. Known smoking linked diseases serve as a sanity check set.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Clara Bueno Lopez, Andri Iona, Iain Turnbull, Huaidong Du, Yiping Chen, Ling Yang, Alexander Tinworth, Zhengjie Shen, Kshitij Kolhe, Pei Pei, Canqing Yu, Dianjianyi Sun, Jun Lv, Junshi Chen, Robert Clarke, Rory Collins, Richard Peto, Liming Li, Fiona Bragg, Zhengming Chen |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |