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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroepidemiology. 2015 May 7;44(3):166–172. doi: 10.1159/000381807

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical features of 376 ET cases

Demographic and clinical features Familial ET
(n = 232)
Sporadic ET
(n = 144)
All Cases
(n = 376)
Current age in years 66.6 ± 15.8
Median = 71
68.9 ± 14.0
Median = 71
67.5 ± 15.1
Median = 71
Female gender 124 (53.4) 72 (50.0) 196 (52.1)
Education in years 15.4 ± 3.6 14.7 ± 4.1 15.1 ± 3.8
Total tremor score * 19.5 ± 7.2 17.6 ± 7.2 18.8 ± 7.2
Tremor duration in years * 27.5 ± 19.2 15.0 ± 14.9 22.8 ± 18.7
Age of tremor onset in years * 39.1 ± 22.2 53.9 ± 19.8 44.7 ± 22.5
Currently taking medication for tremor * 139 (59.9) 65 (45.1) 204 (54.3)

All values are means ± standard deviations or proportions (percentages).

*

p <0.05 (familial ET vs. sporadic ET).