hit counter

Chlorpyrifos Exposure Linked to Up to 174% Higher Parkinson’s Risk

MHD featured image for chlorpyrifos exposure, Parkinson's risk, dopaminergic neurons, and autophagy dysfunction.

A human, mouse, and zebrafish study linked long-term chlorpyrifos exposure to Parkinson’s disease risk, with the strongest exposure-duration estimate reaching OR 2.74 for workplace proximity across the 1974-to-index-year window.1 The paper is stronger than a single epidemiology result because animal experiments pointed to dopaminergic neuron loss, microglial activation, pathological α-synuclein, and autophagy dysfunction. Research Highlights …

Read more