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. 2023 Mar 11;9:38. doi: 10.1038/s41531-023-00476-2

Table 1.

Demographic, clinical and CSF inflammatory characteristics in people with PD stratified by GBA mutation.

PDGBA_WT n = 400 PDGBA
n = 98
p value PDGBA_risk
n = 48
PDGBA_mild
n = 20
PDGBA_severe
n = 30
p valueb
Male sex, % (n) 64 (256) 67 (66) 0.558 73 (35) 60 (12) 63 (19) 0.632
Age 66 ± 10 63 ± 9 0.029 65 ± 9 64 ± 10 59 ± 9***## 0.007
Age at onset 59 ± 11 55 ± 10 <0.001 58 ± 10 55 ± 9 51 ± 10***## <0.001
Disease duration 7 ± 5 8 ± 6 0.017 8 ± 5 9 ± 5* 8 ± 7 0.068
H&Y 2.1 ± 0.6 2.2 ± 0.7 0.466a 2.2 ± 0.8 2.4 ± 0.6 2.1 ± 0.6 0.513a
UPDRS-III 26 ± 11 27 ± 12 0.711a 28 ± 11 30 ± 15 23 ± 10 0.200a
Montreal cognitive assessment 25 ± 4 25 ± 5 0.173a 24 ± 4 25 ± 5 24 ± 4 0.280a
Levodopa equivalent daily dose 560 ± 451 644 ± 438 0.737a 610 ± 357 637 ± 278 709 ± 626 0.783a
Cognitive impairment, % (n)
-At baseline 36 (140) 40 (39) 0.482 44 (21) 25 (5) 43 (13) 0.397
-Development during study 27 (57) 28 (15) 0.865 24 (6) 21 (3) 40 (6) 0.653
Eotaxin-1 57.0 ± 7.77 57.8 ± 7.37 0.476a 57.6 ± 7.72 58.8 ± 5.29 57.4 ± 8.13 0.785a
Factor-VII 437 ± 199 476 ± 204 0.103a 470 ± 213 475 ± 176 487 ± 212 0.427a
Intercellular adhesion molecule 1 511 ± 181 504 ± 183 0.831a 511 ± 168 554 ± 199 459 ± 190 0.586a
Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist 19.3 ± 8.64 20.32 ± 10.15 0.408a 19.6 ± 9.97 21.8 ± 9.26 20.7 ± 11.5 0.695a
Interleukin-2 10.7 ± 5.74 11.03 ± 6.52 0.456a 10.4 ± 4.88 12.4 ± 8.09 11.2 ± 7.87 0.560a
Interleukin-4 8.12 ± 4.03 8.906 ± 4.99 0.309a 8.48 ± 5.02 9.34 ± 5.23 9.28 ± 5.02 0.745a
Interleukin-6 1.04 ± 0.710 1.011 ± 0.381 0.701a 1.03 ± 0.44 1.01 ± 0.37 0.98 ± 0.26 0.959a
Interleukin-7 4.18 ± 2.51 4.47 ± 2.84 0.591a 4.27 ± 2.99 3.63 ± 1.85 5.45 ± 3.11 0.317a
Interleukin-8 40.5 ± 19.4 40.3 ± 12 0.881a 39.8 ± 11.5 44.4 ± 12.4 38.4 ± 12.1 0.812a
Interleukin-12p40 0.12 ± 0.06 0.12 ± 0.06 0.811a 0.11 ± 0.05 0.13 ± 0.08 0.13 ± 0.06 0.559a
Interleukin-18 8.26 ± 3.94 9.00 ± 4.49 0.137a 9.16 ± 5.03 7.86 ± 3.63 9.48 ± 4.13 0.240a
Macrophage inflammatory protein 1 alpha 10.4 ± 4.88 10.0 ± 4.78 0.827a 10.3 ± 5.37 10.9 ± 5.20 9.32 ± 3.98 0.967a
Macrophage inflammatory protein 1 beta 64.0 ± 19.0 65.4 ± 18.2 0.413a 68.2 ± 20.8 61.7 ± 13.5 63.3 ± 16.0 0.442a
Matrix metallopeptidase 3 151 ± 65 137 ± 68 0.084a 138 ± 62 148 ± 58 130 ± 82 0.310a
Matrix metallopeptidase 9 6895 ± 3453 6430 ± 3128 0.234a 6706 ± 2998 6568 ± 3438 5839 ± 3190 0.393a
Monocyte chemoattractant Protein 1 682 ± 232 712 ± 216 0.204a 707 ± 247 764 ± 196 686 ± 174 0.416a
Stem cell factor 74.7 ± 23.9 74.8 ± 27.7 0.631a 79.5 ± 25.3 71.6 ± 26.1 69.5 ± 31.9 0.474a
Tumour necrosis factor-alpha 3.72 ± 1.32 n = 128 3.14 ± 0.92 n = 46 0.003a 3.07 ± 1.15* n = 20 3.27 ± 0.85 n = 11 3.13 ± 0.61 n = 15 0.026a
Vascular endothelial growth Factor 35.6 ± 6.14 36.5 ± 5.93 0.192a 36.37 ± 6.27 37.1 ± 5.72 36.2 ± 5.67 0.565a

Data were presented as mean and standard deviation.

aANCOVA: age and disease duration as a covariate.

bp value comparing all four groups of GBAWT, GBArisk, GBAmild and GBAsevere.

*versus GBAWT, # versus GBArisk and § versus GBAmild.