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. 2024 Apr 23;14(3):545–556. doi: 10.3233/JPD-230285

Table 2.

Demographical and clinical information for prodromal PD (P-PD) and control group

Variable Descriptive statistics p
Prodromal PD Control Prodromal PD
n = 62 n = 62 vs. Control
Mean SD n Mean SD n
Sex, M/F 37/25 62 38/24 62 p = 1.000
Age, y 63.52 5.96 62 63.70 8.04 62 p = 0.793
RBDSQ (/13) 9.07 1.83 62 2.00 1.79 62 p < 0.001
Sniffin’Stick (/16) 10.11 3.19 53 14.18 1.06 62 p < 0.001
BSIT-A (/12) 6.48 1.94 61 NA NA 0 NA
Education, y 13.00 4.25 60 13.76 3.66 62 p = 0.415
MDS-UPDRS I (/32) 8.22 5.96 46 4.65 4.49 62 p < 0.001**
MDS-UPDRS II (/32) 2.68 4.01 57 1.10 1.77 62 p = 0.004**
MDS-UPDRS III (/132) 4.71 6.57 59 4.19 5.06 59 p = 0.872
BDI-I (/63) 8.69 6.89 54 5.34 5.13 62 p = 0.004**
SAS (/42) 13.56 5.32 55 9.93 5.09 61 p < 0.001**
PDQ-39 (%) 13.32 12.63 53 5.87 6.15 61 p < 0.001**

Both groups were defined on RBDSQ, Sniffin’Stick and BSIT-A and matched for sex and age. SD, standard deviation; M, male; F, female; n, sample size; MDS-UPDRS, Movement Disorder Society –Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale; RBDSQ, REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) Screening Questionnaire; BSIT, Brief Smell Identification Test; BDI-I, Beck Depression Inventory; SAS, Starkstein Apathy Scale; PDQ-39, Parkinson’s disease questionnaire 39-item. *Significant at the unadjusted 5% level (p≤0.05) (two-tailed); **Significant at the Bonferroni-adjusted 5% level (p≤0.05/7) (two-tailed).