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AScribe Health News Service, April, 2005
Byline: Mayo Clinic
ROCHESTER, Minn., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers have found that people who score in the upper 25 percent in anxiety level on a personality test have a moderately increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease decades later. They also found a similar link between pessimistic personalities and Parkinson's.
"This is the first study that took a group of people with documented personality characteristics but no symptoms of Parkinson's disease and showed that those with high levels of an anxious or pessimistic personality are at higher risk for developing Parkinson's disease up to several decades later," says James Bower, M.D., Mayo Clinic neurologist and the study's lead investigator.
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