Review Article
Risk of Parkinson’s Disease in the Users of Antihypertensive Agents: An Evidence from the Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies
Table 1
Characteristics of the cohort studies.
| | Author, year (country) | Cohort name | Cohort size | Follow-up period | Number of antihypertensive users | Number of PD cases |
| | Lee et al., 2014 [5] (Taiwan) | NR | 65001 | 4.6 years | 650001 | 650001 | | Pasternak et al., 2012 [6] (Denmark) | NR | 25,73,281 | 8 years | 202836 | 57111 | | Simon et al., 2010 [7] (USA) | Nurses’ health study and health professionals follow-up study | 1,71,335 | 16 years | 3826 | 421 | | Louis et al., 2009 [8] (Spain) | Neurological disorder in central Spain | 3942 | 4 years | NR | NR |
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NR: not reported.
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