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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Parkinsons Dis. 2013;3(2):139–144. doi: 10.3233/JPD-130178

Table 1.

Demographic information on tested groups.

Controls PD-DA PD+DA DBS-DA DBS+DA t statistic χ 2 or F-statistic p-value
Participants(no.) 18 14 20 11 16
Gender (male) 15 11 19 10 11 χ 2=5.1 0.27
Age (yrs) 58.9±12.8 67.2±7.5 64.3±5.2 57.0±7.0 59.1±11.6 F=3.0 0.023
Age PD of diagnosis 61.1±2.2 53.2±1.8 42.5±2.3 43.7±2.2 F=15.9 <0.001*
PD Disease duration (yrs) 6.2±3.8 11.1±7.0 14.4±5.0 15.6±6.0 F=7.3 <0.001*
DBS (yrs) 3.4±3.3 3.6±2.2 t=0.2 0.8
Education (yrs) 13.6±3.2 14.8±3.1 14.5±2.5 13.9±2.8 13.7±2.8 F=0.4 0.75
LEU dose(mg/day) 511±321 854.2±356 739.2±409 771.4±337 F=2.6 0.058
DA dose (LEU) 216.0±109 204.9±97.1 t=0.3 0.7
UPDRS on 16.0±2.3 19.4±11.6 16.5±4.4 17.6±4.4 F=0.5 0.6
DA duration (yrs)