India is among the countries where the incidence of Parkinson’s disease is expected to double in the next generation – by 2030, a study published in the Neurology.
Ray Dorsey, Neurologist at the University of Rochester, and a team of researchers examined the projected population growth in the five largest countries in Western Europe -France, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Italy and the 10 most populous nations worldwide that included China, India, Indonesia, the United States, Brazil, and Russia.
Researchers projected the prevalence of the disease by age group in each country, and estimate that the number of individuals with Parkinson’s disease in these 15 countries will grow from 4.1 to 8.7 million by the year 2030.
While the number of individuals with the disease will nearly double in the US to 6.10 lakh the greatest growth will occur in developing countries in Asia.