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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2009 Mar 28;15(9):644–648. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2009.03.003

Table 1.

Baseline Participant Demographics

Variable Waltz/Foxtrot (n = 17) Tango (n= 14) Tai Chi (n= 13) No Intervention (n= 17) P value
Age (years) 66.8 ± 2.4 68.2±1.4 64.9± 2.3 66.5 ± 2.8 0.83
Sex (male/female) 11/6 11/3 11/2 12/5 0.64
Time with PD (years) 9.2 ± 1.4 6.9 ± 1.3 8.7±1.3 5.9 ± 1.0 0.22
UPDRS Motor Subscale III 26.9 ± 2.5 27.6 ± 2.0 26.3± 2.5 27.4 ± 2.4 0.98
Hoehn &Yahr scale 2.0 ± 0.2 2.1 ± 0.1 2.0 ± 0.1 2.2 ± 0.2 0.63
Dyskinesia score 0.82 ± 6.2 0.32 ± 0.2 2.27 ± 0.8 0.38 ± 0.2 0.05
Fallers/Non-fallers 8/9 9/5 3 /10 6 /11 0.16
Fallers UPDRS/Non-Fallers UPDRS (*) 28.1 ± 3.8/25.9 ± 3.4 (0.69) 29.8 ± 2.9/23.6 ± 1.0 (0.11) 25.0 ± 0.6/26.7 ± 3.3 (0.79) 28.3 ± 4.7/26.9 ± 2.9 (0.80) N/A

Values are means ± SE. P values are for One-way ANOVAs. N/A= non-applicable

*

P value between fallers and non fallers within groups