Study: Living Near a Golf Course Could Lead to a Terrible Chronic Illness

Image by Getty / Futurism Studies A controversial new study has found that those who live within just two miles of a golf course may face up to three times the odds of developing Parkinson's disease, the progressive neurological disorder that causes tremors and difficulty with balance. According to the population-based case-control study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, environmental risks (including pesticide exposure and groundwater contamination) could be contributing to the risk of developing Parkinson's near a golf course. And in the United States, golf courses are treated with extremely high levels of pesticides, which could in fact be varying degrees of hazardous to human health. The team examined medical records of over 5,000 people in southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin from 1991 to 2015, as well as groundwater vulnerability data. The team found that people living between one and two miles from a golf course weren't just more likely, but were 198 percent mor ... Read full article.