Effects of Cannabis in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Corbett, Joel
Hughes, Ian
Owusu, Maame Amma
Thorning, Sarah
Broadley, Simon
Sabet, Arman
Heshmat, Saman
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The legalization of cannabis in many countries has allowed many Parkinson's disease (PD) patients to turn to cannabis as a treatment. As such there is a growing interest from the PD community to be properly guided by evidence regarding potential treatment benefits of cannabis. This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to compile the best available evidence to help guide patients and their family, clinicians and researchers make informed decisions. A systematic search of the literature was conducted in June 2021. Five randomized controlled studies and eighteen non-randomized studies investigated cannabis treatment in PD patients. No compelling evidence was found to recommend the use of cannabis in PD patients. However, a potential benefit was identified with respect to alleviation of PD related tremor, anxiety, pain, improvement of sleep quality and quality of life. Given the relative paucity of well-designed randomized studies, there is an identified need for further investigation, particularly in these areas.
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Journal of Parkinson's Disease
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© 2021 The authors. Published by IOS Pres. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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Neurosciences
Biochemistry and cell biology
Cannabis
Parkinson’s disease
UPDRS
efficacy of cannabis
tremor
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Urbi, B; Corbett, J; Hughes, I; Owusu, MA; Thorning, S; Broadley, S; Sabet, A; Heshmat, S, Effects of Cannabis in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysi., Journal of Parkinson's Disease, 2021, pp. 1-14