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. 2024 Jul 23;6:1440986. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2024.1440986

Table 1.

Demographic information of the samples and as essential clinical information.

German Colombian Czech
PD DE PD CO HCs CO PD CZ HD CZ PSP CZ ALS CZ HCs CZ
N 98 (32 F) 50 (25 F) 50 (25 F) 43 (19 F) 39 (20 F) 17 (6 F) 16 (11 F) 46 (21 F)
Age (years) 62.7 (±8.23) 61.02(±9.44) 60.98 (±9.46) 63.0 (±9.92) 48.28 (±13.4) 66.76 (±4.8) 60.0 (±10.66) 51.54 (±14.05)
MDS-UPDRS, UHDRS, NNIPPS, ALSFRS-R 37.43 (±10.89) 37.66 (±18.32) 20.88 (±10.92) 26.51 (±11.47) 67.12 (±26.7) 35.06 (±6.97)
Clinical scale speech items 0.80 (±0.90) 1.34 (±0.82) 0.81 (±0.63) 0.81 (±0.46) 1.88 (±0.7) 2.75 (±0.86)
ki: SB-M intelligibility score 0.82 (±0.18) 0.73 (±0.18) 0.86 (±0.11) 0.81 (±0.07) 0.67 (±0.17) 0.54 (±0.28) 0.58 (±0.29) 0.85 (±0.04)

CO, Colombian Spanish; CZ, Czech; DE, German.

ALSFRS-R: note that ALSFRS-R has an inverse relationship to disease severity, unlike the other scales where higher scores mean greater severity. Clinical scale speech items: MDS-UPDRS item 3.1, UHDRS dysarthria score, NNIPPS speech item, ALSFRS-R speech item from the bulbar score.