Who's most likely to get Parkinson's disease? In the U.S., the
disease is more likely to affect men than women, more likely to
affect white or Hispanic individuals than black or Asian people
and much more likely to affect those over sixty than those
younger, according to a study published in the American Journal
of Epidemiology in 2003. Other research suggests that globally,
you're more likely to get Parkinson's if you live in an
industrialized country like the U.S. than if you live in a less
developed nation. However, there's no clear-cut data on the
demographics. "It's hard to believe that we don't have that data
now," says Dr. J. William Langston, founder and director of the
Parkinson's Institute, "but ... it's not available anywhere in
the world." In part, this is because Parkinson's disease affects
a relatively small population -- at most one to two percent in
the United States -- and because of difficulties in consistently
diagnosing the disorder. Is the risk of getting this disease
growing? There's eve