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. 2023 Nov 25;147(2):444–457. doi: 10.1093/brain/awad388

Table 1.

Clinical and postmortem characteristics (mean ± standard deviation)

Measure No Motor Deficit (NMD) Minimal Motor Deficit with Absent nigral Lewy body (MMD) Minimal Motor Deficit with nigral Lewy body (MMD-LB) Parkinson’s disease (PD)
Case number 9 11 17 24
Age at death, years 81.33 ± 8.06 93.00 ± 3.10 90.41 ± 5.53 78.04 ± 8.69##,$$
Sex, male/female 4/5 3/8 9/8 13/11
Global parkinsonism, (0–100) 4.32 ± 2.05 25.37 ± 11.92** 16.34 ± 12.41* 38.64 ± 10.24***,$$
Parkinsonian gait score (0–100) 9.56 ± 11.48 56.96 ± 19.68*** 34.27 ± 23.15* 56.07 ± 22.34***
Rigidity (0–100) 4.04 ± 8.93 16.36 ± 19.76 16.8 ± 22.54 38.33 ± 17.29***,#,$$
Tremor (0–100) 1.54 ± 4.63 2.47 ± 4.85 3.49 ± 5.56 8.07 ± 12.27
Bradykinesia (0–100) 2.18 ± 6.55 26.81 ± 16.05* 15.75 ± 14.47 52.10 ± 16.28***,#,$$$
Post-mortem interval, h 5.88 ± 2.45 10.24 ± 4.07 9.37 ± 6.37 5.99 ± 2.41

* P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 and ***P < 0.001 compared with NMD.

# P < 0.05 and ##P < 0.01 compared with MMD.

$$ P < 0.01 and $$$P < 0.001 compared with MMD-LB.