A new study enlightened the fact that people who often take three or four tablets of ibuprofen in a week are 40% less prone to develop Parkinson's disease.

It is the only one drug out of many pain relievers, which falls in the class of Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) that have any effect on getting infected with this disease.

Researcher Xiang Gao, MD, with Harvard School of Public Health in Boston says,"More research is needed as to how and why ibuprofen appears to reduce the risk of Parkinson's disease, which affects up to one million people in the United States".

The researchers conducted a study on about 136,474 men and women, who did not suffer from the disease, when the study began. It observed that whether the regular use of ibuprofen or other NSAIDs was in any way connected to a lower risk of getting infected with Parkinson's disease. About 293 were found to be infected with the disease.

Though, a direct cause and effect relationship between ibuprofen and Parkinson's disease has not been established so far, hence more probe is needed.