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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2012 Apr 26;18(7):837–841. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2012.04.004

Table 3.

Hurdle Poisson model for number of falls post-baseline

Baseline Variables Risk Ratio
(RR)
Standard
Error
p-value 95% CI
Number of falls (Poisson
part)
Age (yrs) 1.02 0.01 0.09 (1.00, 1.04)
UPDRS Falling>0 2.92 0.65 <.0001 (1.64,4.20)
PDQ-39 Summary score 1.00 0.01 0.65 (0.98, 1.01)
Odds
Ratio (OR)
Standard
Error
p-value 95% CI
Probability of remaining
fall-free (Hurdle part)
Age (yrs) 0.95 0.01 <.001 (0.93, 0.98)
UPDRS Falling>0 0.14 0.07 <.0001 (0.00, 0.28)
PDQ-39 Summary score 0.96 0.01 0.0001 (0.93, 0.98)

Model was fit with 412 complete observations (1 deleted due to missing values).

Event rate for post-baseline falls = 20% (n=84).