<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A new study in the US has found a potential link between golf courses and Parkinson's disease.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The research, published in </span><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2833716" rel="" target="_blank" title="JAMA Network Open"><span>JAMA Network Open</span></a><span>, found that people living within five kilometres of golf courses are more than twice as likely to develop the devastating neurological illness.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Researchers suspected it was linked to pesticide use across those courses, with the toxic chemicals leaching into the drinking water.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 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said many other factors needed to be ruled out before the disease could be clearly linked to the pesticides.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/study-links-golf-course-pesticides-to-parkinsons-disease-us/b236849a-ec39-4e3d-b443-977a73425243" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/three-chinese-nationals-arrested-in-japan-after-thousands-of-protected-hermit-crabs-found-smuggled-in-suitcases/58ec5577-c412-48f6-9c42-ca192d259fc6" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Thousands of protected hermit crabs found smuggled in suitcases</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Parkinson's UK research director Dr David Dexter said multiple factors of the study had not been controlled.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Firstly, Parkinson's starts in the brain 10 to 15 years before diagnosis and the study didn't only use subjects who permanently lived in the area," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This would not only affect participants' exposure, but also suggests their Parkinson's could have started before they moved around a golf course."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He also pointed out the study had not analysed the drinking water in the affected areas for pesticide levels.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a 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said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"However, the evidence is not strong enough to show that pesticide exposure directly causes Parkinson's."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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