Treatment of hemorrhoids is divided by the cause of symptoms, into internal and external treatments. Accurately classifying a patient's symptoms and the relation of the symptoms to internal and external hemorrhoids is important.
Note also that the average life expectancy after being diagnosed with Parkinson's is about 9 years -- hence, those who participated were already at this point at the beginning of the study.
In one study, older individuals with a history of chronic constipation were more than three times as likely to develop Parkinsonâs disease during an average 5.5 years of follow-up, and those with the most severe constipation had the greatest risk (Lin 2014).