Table 2.

Quantification of six emotions in myasthenia gravis patients versus healthy controls (upper part table) and mild versus moderate–severe disease (lower part table).

Facial expression	Myasthenia gravis patients (n = 70)	Healthy controls (n = 69)	p‐value
Anger, mean ± SD	0.33 ± 0.26	0.45 ± 0.32	0.026
Fear, mean ± SD	0.12 ± 0.21	0.24 ± 0.27	0.003
Happiness, mean ± SD	0.59 ± 0.35	0.80 ± 0.27	<0.001
Surprise, mean ± SD	0.44 ± 0.34	0.40 ± 0.34	0.422
Disgust, mean ± SD	0.42 ± 0.31	0.45 ± 0.35	0.604
Sadness, mean ± SD	0.42 ± 0.34	0.49 ± 0.34	0.263

Facial expression	Mild disease (n = 39)	Moderate severe disease (n = 28)	p‐value
Anger, mean ± SD	0.32 ± 0.24	0.33 ± 0.28	0.906
Fear, mean ± SD	0.15 ± 0.25	0.09 ± 0.14	0.224
Happiness, mean ± SD	0.65 ± 0.32	0.53 ± 0.37	0.160
Surprise, mean ± SD	0.46 ± 0.35	0.43 ± 0.35	0.750
Disgust, mean ± SD	0.49 ± 0.29	0.34 ± 0.32	0.054
Sadness, mean ± SD	0.41 ± 0.33	0.43 ± 0.34	0.837

Bold values represent p‐values <0.05.