. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 27.

Published in final edited form as: Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2021 Dec 22;34(7):e14310. doi: 10.1111/nmo.14310

Table 1:

Summary of participant demographics.

Patient characteristics (N=76).	Mean (SD)
Age (years)	63.51 ± 10.99
Duration of Symptoms (months)	23.8 ± 18.8
ALSFRS-R Total Score	36.2 ± 7.26
ALSFRS-R Bulbar Score	9.38 ± 2.40

	Frequency (%)
Sex
Male	37 (48.7%)
Female	39 (51.3%)
Race
White	70 (92.1%)
Black	3 (4.0%)
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander	1 (1.3%)
Unknown	2 (2.6%)
Ethnicity
Not Hispanic	71 (93.4%)
Hispanic	4 (5.3%)
Unknown	1 (1.3%)
Disease Onset type
Spinal	39 (51.3%)
Bulbar	32 (42.1%)
Mixed	5 (6.6%)