Skip to main content
Advertisement
  • Neurology.org
  • Journals
    • Neurology
    • Clinical Practice
    • Genetics
    • Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • Specialty Sites
    • COVID-19
    • Practice Current
    • Practice Buzz
    • Without Borders
    • Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
    • Innovations in Care Delivery
  • Collections
    • Topics A-Z
    • Residents & Fellows
    • Infographics
    • Patient Pages
    • Null Hypothesis
    • Translations
  • Podcast
  • CME
  • About
    • About the Journals
    • Contact Us
    • Editorial Board
  • Authors
    • Submit a Manuscript
    • Author Center

Advanced Search

Main menu

  • Neurology.org
  • Journals
    • Neurology
    • Clinical Practice
    • Genetics
    • Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • Specialty Sites
    • COVID-19
    • Practice Current
    • Practice Buzz
    • Without Borders
    • Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
    • Innovations in Care Delivery
  • Collections
    • Topics A-Z
    • Residents & Fellows
    • Infographics
    • Patient Pages
    • Null Hypothesis
    • Translations
  • Podcast
  • CME
  • About
    • About the Journals
    • Contact Us
    • Editorial Board
  • Authors
    • Submit a Manuscript
    • Author Center
  • Home
  • Latest Articles
  • Current Issue
  • Past Issues
  • Residents & Fellows

User menu

  • Subscribe
  • My Alerts
  • Log in

Search

  • Advanced search
Neurology
Home
The most widely read and highly cited peer-reviewed neurology journal
  • Subscribe
  • My Alerts
  • Log in
Site Logo
  • Home
  • Latest Articles
  • Current Issue
  • Past Issues
  • Residents & Fellows

Share

May 23, 2017; 88 (21) ArticleOpen Access

Vagotomy and Parkinson disease

A Swedish register–based matched-cohort study

Bojing Liu, Fang Fang, Nancy L. Pedersen, Annika Tillander, Jonas F. Ludvigsson, Anders Ekbom, Per Svenningsson, Honglei Chen, Karin Wirdefeldt
First published April 26, 2017, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000003961
Bojing Liu
From the Departments of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (B.L., F.F., N.L.P., A.T., J.F.L., K.W.), Medicine (A.E.), and Clinical Neuroscience (P.S., K.W.), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Psychology (N.L.P.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Department of Paediatrics (J.F.L.), Örebro University Hospital, Sweden; and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (H.C.), College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Fang Fang
From the Departments of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (B.L., F.F., N.L.P., A.T., J.F.L., K.W.), Medicine (A.E.), and Clinical Neuroscience (P.S., K.W.), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Psychology (N.L.P.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Department of Paediatrics (J.F.L.), Örebro University Hospital, Sweden; and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (H.C.), College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Nancy L. Pedersen
From the Departments of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (B.L., F.F., N.L.P., A.T., J.F.L., K.W.), Medicine (A.E.), and Clinical Neuroscience (P.S., K.W.), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Psychology (N.L.P.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Department of Paediatrics (J.F.L.), Örebro University Hospital, Sweden; and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (H.C.), College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Annika Tillander
From the Departments of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (B.L., F.F., N.L.P., A.T., J.F.L., K.W.), Medicine (A.E.), and Clinical Neuroscience (P.S., K.W.), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Psychology (N.L.P.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Department of Paediatrics (J.F.L.), Örebro University Hospital, Sweden; and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (H.C.), College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Jonas F. Ludvigsson
From the Departments of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (B.L., F.F., N.L.P., A.T., J.F.L., K.W.), Medicine (A.E.), and Clinical Neuroscience (P.S., K.W.), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Psychology (N.L.P.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Department of Paediatrics (J.F.L.), Örebro University Hospital, Sweden; and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (H.C.), College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Anders Ekbom
From the Departments of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (B.L., F.F., N.L.P., A.T., J.F.L., K.W.), Medicine (A.E.), and Clinical Neuroscience (P.S., K.W.), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Psychology (N.L.P.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Department of Paediatrics (J.F.L.), Örebro University Hospital, Sweden; and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (H.C.), College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Per Svenningsson
From the Departments of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (B.L., F.F., N.L.P., A.T., J.F.L., K.W.), Medicine (A.E.), and Clinical Neuroscience (P.S., K.W.), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Psychology (N.L.P.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Department of Paediatrics (J.F.L.), Örebro University Hospital, Sweden; and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (H.C.), College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Honglei Chen
From the Departments of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (B.L., F.F., N.L.P., A.T., J.F.L., K.W.), Medicine (A.E.), and Clinical Neuroscience (P.S., K.W.), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Psychology (N.L.P.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Department of Paediatrics (J.F.L.), Örebro University Hospital, Sweden; and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (H.C.), College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Karin Wirdefeldt
From the Departments of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (B.L., F.F., N.L.P., A.T., J.F.L., K.W.), Medicine (A.E.), and Clinical Neuroscience (P.S., K.W.), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Psychology (N.L.P.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Department of Paediatrics (J.F.L.), Örebro University Hospital, Sweden; and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (H.C.), College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing.
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Full PDF
Citation
Vagotomy and Parkinson disease
A Swedish register–based matched-cohort study
Bojing Liu, Fang Fang, Nancy L. Pedersen, Annika Tillander, Jonas F. Ludvigsson, Anders Ekbom, Per Svenningsson, Honglei Chen, Karin Wirdefeldt
Neurology May 2017, 88 (21) 1996-2002; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000003961

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Permissions

Make Comment

See Comments

Downloads
6918

Share

  • Article
  • Figures & Data
  • Info & Disclosures
Loading

Article Figures & Data

Figures

  • Tables
  • Additional Files
  • Figure 1
    • Download figure
    • Open in new tab
    • Download powerpoint
    Figure 1 Cumulative incidence of PD among truncal vagotomized patients and their matched reference individuals

    PD = Parkinson disease.

  • Figure 2
    • Download figure
    • Open in new tab
    • Download powerpoint
    Figure 2 Cumulative incidence of PD among selective vagotomized patients and their matched reference individuals

    PD = Parkinson disease.

Tables

  • Figures
  • Additional Files
    • Download figure
    • Open in new tab
    • Download powerpoint
    • Download figure
    • Open in new tab
    • Download powerpoint
  • Table 2

Additional Files

  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Accompanying Editorial

    Neurology® data supplements are not copyedited before publication. Published editorials and translations have been copyedited.
    © 2017 American Academy of Neurology.

    Files in this Data Supplement:

    • Accompanying Editorial - PDF
  • Data Supplement

    Neurology® data supplements are not copyedited before publication. Published editorials and translations have been copyedited.
    © 2017 American Academy of Neurology.

    Files in this Data Supplement:

    • Data Supplement - Microsoft Word file

Disputes & Debates: Rapid online correspondence

No comments have been published for this article.
Comment

NOTE: All authors' disclosures must be entered and current in our database before comments can be posted. Enter and update disclosures at http://submit.neurology.org. Exception: replies to comments concerning an article you originally authored do not require updated disclosures.

  • Stay timely. Submit only on articles published within 6 months of issue date.
  • Do not be redundant. Read any comments already posted on the article prior to submission.
  • 200 words maximum.
  • 5 references maximum. Reference 1 must be the article on which you are commenting.
  • 5 authors maximum. Exception: replies can include all original authors of the article.
  • Submitted comments are subject to editing and editor review prior to posting.

More guidelines and information on Disputes & Debates

Compose Comment

More information about text formats

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Author Information
NOTE: The first author must also be the corresponding author of the comment.
First or given name, e.g. 'Peter'.
Your last, or family, name, e.g. 'MacMoody'.
Your email address, e.g. higgs-boson@gmail.com
Your role and/or occupation, e.g. 'Orthopedic Surgeon'.
Your organization or institution (if applicable), e.g. 'Royal Free Hospital'.
Publishing Agreement
NOTE: All authors, besides the first/corresponding author, must complete a separate Disputes & Debates Submission Form and provide via email to the editorial office before comments can be posted.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.

Vertical Tabs

You May Also be Interested in

Back to top
  • Article
    • Abstract
    • GLOSSARY
    • METHODS
    • RESULTS
    • DISCUSSION
    • AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS
    • STUDY FUNDING
    • DISCLOSURE
    • ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    • Footnotes
    • REFERENCES
  • Figures & Data
  • Info & Disclosures
Advertisement

Related Articles

  • Preventing Parkinson disease by vagotomyFact or fiction?

Topics Discussed

  • Cohort studies
  • Parkinson's disease/Parkinsonism
  • Public health

Alert Me

  • Alert me when eletters are published
Neurology: 96 (15)

Articles

  • Ahead of Print
  • Current Issue
  • Past Issues
  • Popular Articles
  • Translations

About

  • About the Journals
  • Ethics Policies
  • Editors & Editorial Board
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise

Submit

  • Author Center
  • Submit a Manuscript
  • Information for Reviewers
  • AAN Guidelines
  • Permissions

Subscribers

  • Subscribe
  • Activate a Subscription
  • Sign up for eAlerts
  • RSS Feed
Site Logo
  • Visit neurology Template on Facebook
  • Follow neurology Template on Twitter
  • Visit Neurology on YouTube
  • Neurology
  • Neurology: Clinical Practice
  • Neurology: Genetics
  • Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • AAN.com
  • AANnews
  • Continuum
  • Brain & Life
  • Neurology Today

Wolters Kluwer Logo

Neurology | Print ISSN:0028-3878
Online ISSN:1526-632X

© 2021 American Academy of Neurology

  • Privacy Policy
  • Feedback
  • Advertise