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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2015 Dec 19;23:57–61. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2015.12.005

Table 1.

Characteristics of study population by case status.

Characteristics Controls (N=230) Cases (N=379) P-value*
Years since diagnosis (mean ± SD) NA 9.4±6.8
Age (years) at data of visit (mean± SD) 68.6±10.7 66.9±9.5 0.048
Gender <0.001
    Male (%) 79 (34.4) 242 (63.9)
    Female (%) 151 (65.6) 137 (36.1)
Race <0.001
    White (%) 188 (81.7) 362 (95.5)
    Non-White (%) 42 (18.3) 15 (4.0)
    Missing 0 (0) 2 (0.5)
Education <0.134
    High School or Less (%) 35 (15.2) 56 (14.7)
    Attended College (%) 53 (23.0) 58 (15.3)
    Graduated College (%) 67 (29.1) 112 (29.6)
    Attended Grad School (%) 73 (31.7) 149 (39.3)
    Missing (%) 2 (0.9) 4 (1.1)
Smoking Status
    Never (%) 102 (44.4) 181 (47.8) 0.413
    Ever (%) 111 (48.3) 157 (41.4)
    Missing (%) 17 (7.4) 41 (10.8)

NA, not applicable.

*

Produced using T-tests for continuous variables and Chi-Squared Tests for categorical and binary variables