Table 1.

Descriptive Characteristics: Mean (95% Confidence Interval of Mean) of Participants With Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and Control Participants

	PD	Control	Results for group differences (analysis of variance)
Weight (kg)	79.84 (74.57–85.10)	68.41 (60.35–76.46)	F[1,22]= 6.84 p = 0.02
Height (m)	1.79 (1.74–1.84)	1.72 (1.66–1.78)	F[1,22]= 3.61, p = 0.07
Body Mass Index	24.95 (23.32–26.59)	23.09 (20.87–25.30)	F[1,22]= 2.23 p = 0.15
Age (yrs)	67.5 (63.1–72.9)	62.9 (58.4–67.4)	F[1,22]= 2.60, p = 0.12
Stance width (%)*	9.5% (8.4%–10.6%)	9.4% (8.6%–10.2%)	F[1,22]=0.01, p = 0.93
Gender	11m, 1f	6m, 6f
Duration of PD (mos)	77 (47–107)
UPDRS Motor Score	23 (18–29)

^*stance width measured from calcaneuos to calcaneous and normalized to height as percent of height