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. 2013 Feb 11;8(2):e49596. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049596

Table 2. Comparisons of estimated NMSS total and domain scores1 by study group.

Study Group F-test p-value Pair-wise Comparison p-values3
PD C HFS PD vs C PD vs HFS HFS vs C
NMSS total score 37.9 (±2.6) 11.2 (±0.9) 18.0 (±2.1) <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 0.003
Domains
Cardiovascular domain 1.0 (±0.2) 0.3 (±0.1) 0.3 (±0.1) <0.0001 <0.0001 0.001 0.884
Sleep/fatigue domain 8.2 (±0.8) 2.5 (±0.3) 4.3 (±0.7) <0.0001 <0.0001 0.002 0.016
Mood domain 9.2 (±1.2) 1.9 (±0.3) 3.5 (±0.8) <0.0001 <0.0001 0.001 0.064
Perceptual problems/hallucinations domain 1.0 (±0.2) 0.05 (±0.02) 0.1 (±0.1) <0.0001 <0.0001 0.0003 0.642
Attention/memoryDomain 3.5 (±0.3) 1.9 (±0.2) 2.9 (±0.5) 0.0003 0.0002 0.536 0.091
Gastrointestinal domain 3.2 (±0.5) 0.2 (±0.1) 0.3 (±0.1) <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 0.924
Urinary domain 5.1 (±0.6) 1.8 (±0.3) 3.4 (±0.6) <0.0001 <0.0001 0.158 0.016
Sexual function domain2 1.4 (±0.2) 0.8 (±0.1) 0.7 (±0.2) 0.003 0.010 0.028 0.953
Miscellaneous domain 5.1 (±0.6) 1.6 (±0.2) 2.0 (±0.4) <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 0.648

PD: Parkinson's disease patients; C: Healthy controls; HFS: Hemifacial spasm patients.

1

Estimated mean scores adjusted for age and sex (± standard error) using GLIM negative binomial model 2Estimated percentages adjusted for age, sex and presence of diabetes mellitus (± standard error) using logistic regression model.

3

Tukey-Kramer adjusted p-values.