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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurol Sci. 2014 Jul 19;345(0):131–138. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2014.07.026

Table 2.

iTUG and iSway measures with highest correlation (r) with PD diagnosis and disease severity.

Diagnosis Set Disease Severity Set
iTUG r* iSway r* iTUG r* iSway r*
Turn To Sit: Peak Turn Velocity −0.30 Path length 0.18 Gait: Stride Length [CoV] 0.46 Centroidal frequency (AP) 0.40
Gait: RoM Trunk horizontal [CoV] −0.26 High frequency power (AP) 0.18 Gait: Stride Length [Mean] −0.43 Path length 0.39
Gait: Stride Length [Mean] −0.24 Mean distance (ML) 0.19 Turn To Sit: Duration 0.47 Jerk (ML) 0.39
Turn: Number of steps [Mean] 0.23 Normalized jerk (AP) 0.17 Gait: RoM Knee [Mean] −0.42 Mean frequency 0.40
Gait: Peak Swing Velocity R [CoV] 0.21 Path length (AP) 0.18 Gait: Stride Velocity [Mean] −0.40 Median frequency (AP) 0.39
Turn: Duration [Mean] 0.21 Mean frequency 0.15 Gait: RoM Shank L [Mean] −0.40 Normalized jerk 0.38
Turn To Sit: RoM Trunk −0.23 Normalized jerk 0.14 Gait: Stride Velocity [CoV] 0.40 Mean distance (ML) 0.33
Gait: RoM Knee [Mean] −0.21 Range of acceleration 0.14 Total Duration 0.41 Path length (AP) 0.30
Gait: RoM Knee R [Mean] −0.21 Total sway area 0.15 Gait: RoM Shank [CoV] 0.38 Centroidal frequency 0.32
Turn: Peak Velocity [Mean] −0.20 Mean velocity (ML) 0.14 Gait: RoM Knee L [Mean] −0.37 Frequency dispersion (ML) −0.30

CoV=covariance, AP=anteroposterior, ML=mediolateral

*

average correlation coefficient over 10 randomization trials