TY - JOUR T1 - Parkinson disease male-to-female ratios increase with age: French nationwide study and meta-analysis JF - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry JO - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry SP - 952 LP - 957 DO - 10.1136/jnnp-2015-312283 VL - 87 IS - 9 AU - Frédéric Moisan AU - Sofiane Kab AU - Fatima Mohamed AU - Marianne Canonico AU - Morgane Le Guern AU - Cécile Quintin AU - Laure Carcaillon AU - Javier Nicolau AU - Nicolas Duport AU - Archana Singh-Manoux AU - Marjorie Boussac-Zarebska AU - Alexis Elbaz Y1 - 2016/09/01 UR - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/87/9/952.abstract N2 - Background Parkinson’s disease (PD) is 1.5 times more frequent in men than women. Whether age modifies this ratio is unclear. We examined whether male-to-female (M–F) ratios change with age through a French nationwide prevalence/incidence study (2010) and a meta-analysis of incidence studies.Methods We used French national drug claims databases to identify PD cases using a validated algorithm. We computed M–F prevalence/incidence ratios overall and by age using Poisson regression. Ratios were regressed on age to estimate their annual change. We identified all PD incidence studies with age/sex-specific data, and performed a meta-analysis of M–F ratios.Results On the basis of 149 672 prevalent (50% women) and 25 438 incident (49% women) cases, age-standardised rates were higher in men (prevalence=2.865/1000; incidence=0.490/1000 person-years) than women (prevalence=1.934/1000; incidence=0.328/1000 person-years). The overall M–F ratio was 1.48 for prevalence and 1.49 for incidence. Prevalence and incidence M–F ratios increased by 0.05 and 0.14, respectively, per 10 years of age. Incidence was similar in men and women under 50 years (M–F ratio <1.2, p>0.20), and over 1.6 (p<0.001) times higher in men than women above 80 years (p trend <0.001). A meta-analysis of 22 incidence studies (14 126 cases, 46% women) confirmed that M– F ratios increased with age (0.26 per 10 years, p trend=0.005).Conclusions Age-increasing M–F ratios suggest that PD aetiology changes with age. Sex-related risk/protective factors may play a different role across the continuum of age at onset. This finding may inform aetiological PD research. ER -