Dopaminergic therapy does not affect body weight in Parkinson's disease patients

Aims: Several studies have suggested that Parkinson's disease (PD) patients show altered body weight compared with age-matched, healthy subjects. The etiology of the observed body weight changes in PD, however, is still unresolved. Objective: The aim of this study is to study whether idiopathic PD patients in a movement disorders center display body weight alterations and to to seek correlations between various putative determinants of body weight and the PD patients' body mass index (BMI). Methods: Charts of 208 patients, admitted from April 01 to September 30, 2003 with advanced idiopathic PD and dyskinesias w…