Table 3.

Correlation for the presence of α- and β-synuclein AAb in the peripheral blood serum of PD patients with predisposing (traumatic brain injury, pesticide exposure) or other factors (inheritance, disease stage, sex, age and smoking) related to the disease

	α-Synuclein		β-Synuclein
Factor	p (Fisher’s exact test)	OR (95% CI)	p (Fisher’s exact test)	OR (95%CI)
Sex	0.07	3.33 (0.99–11.12)	0.99	1.10 (0.31–3.94)
Age	0.99	0.85 (0.27–2.69)	0.99	0.85 (0.25–2.91)
Smoke	0.20	2.86 (0.68–11.92)	0.73	1.50 (0.40–5.57)
TBI	0.20	0.48 (0.11–2.22)	0.19	3.3 (0.70–15.64)
Pesticides	0.20	2.45 (0.71–8.43)	0.53	1.64 (0.48–5.68)
PD stage	0.20	2.13 (0.64-7.02)	0.99	0.88 0.26–3.10)
Inheritance	0.02	5.67 (1.37-23.46)	0.52	0.58 (0.15–2.24)