Review Article
Meta-Analysis: Overweight, Obesity, and Parkinson's Disease
Table 1
Characteristics of the studies included in the meta-analysis.
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Author |
Date |
Country |
Type | BMI ≥ 30 | 25 ≤ BMI < 30 | BMI < 25 | Number of PD | Number of observation objects | Number of PD | Number of observation objects | Number of PD | Number of observation objects |
| Morales-Briceno et al. [18] | 2012 | Mexico | Case-control | 34 | 102 | 83 | 156 | 60 | 96 | Ragonese et al. [21] | 2008 | Italy | Case-control | 101 | 208 | 104 | 212 | 107 | 205 | Savica et al. [22] | 2012 | USA | Case-control | 52 | 95 | 87 | 173 | 57 | 124 | Hu et al. [23] | 2006 | Finland | Cohort study | 112 | 122292 | 255 | 333535 | 159 | 405402 | Palacios et al. [19] | 2011 | USA | Cohort study | 79 | 255341 | 286 | 693150 | 274 | 772443 | Chen et al. [17] | 2004 | USA | Cohort study | 31 | 246927 | 158 | 768691 | 262 | 2065803 | Driver et al. [20] | 2008 | USA | Cohort study | 20 | 919 | 216 | 8344 | 320 | 12578 |
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BMI indicates body mass index (kg/m2); PD indicates Parkinson's disease.
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