Table 1. Baseline Patient Characteristics.

LEDD – Levodopa equivalent daily dose (mg) a dose of 100 mg of levodopa is equal to 125 mg of controlled-release levodopa is equal to 10 mg of bromocriptine is equal to 1 mg of pergolide is equal to 4 mg of ropinrirole is equal to 100 mg of amantadine is equal to 333 mg of comtan, is equal to 1 mg pramipexole is equal to 80 mg of stalevo. [31]

Patient	Age (yrs)	Sex	Duration of PD (yrs)	UPDRS III off	UPDRS III on	% Change UPDRS	UPDRS Total	Hoehn Yahr off	LEDD (mg)
1*	66	F	15	40	9	77.50	63	3.0	1258
2	58	M	12	60	18	70.00	97	3.0	1750
3	50	M	8	32	12	62.50	48	2.0	1090
4	57	M	6	37	16	56.76	56	5.0	2394
5	64	F	12	55	NA	NA	NA	3.0	1002
6**	59	M	15	44	22	50.00	81	3.0	1140
7**	58	M	8	46	6	86.96	94	4.0	1560
8	62	F	11	54	13	75.93	94	5.0	862
9	66	M	12	44	21	52.27	77	3.0	1516
10	62	F	7	34	23	32.35	69	4.0	340
11	60	M	15	41	25	39.02	66	2.0	1376
12	54	M	7	27	11	59.26	45	2.0	2065
13	56	F	8	54	9	83.33	97	4.0	1354
14	57	F	9	58	25	56.90	89	4.0	1380
15	65	F	10	31	13	58.06	52	2.0	825
16	67	F	24	50	16	68.00	89	5.0	1180
17	55	M	9	46	23	50.00	70	3.0	1635
Mean (+/−SD)	59.8 (4.8)	9M/8F	11.1 (4.4)	43.3 (11.2)	15.9 (7.4)	60.2 (19.8)	71.4 (20.3)	3.4 (1.1)	1337 (482)

^*Excluded from the analysis (patient explanted at month 2)

^**Follow-up data missing