Table 1.
Patient characteristics are displayed for control and Parkinson’s disease (PD) subjects. The gender distribution for each group is shown followed by the age distribution and age of onset for PD patients. The number of patients in each group with hypertension (HTN) is shown with the percentage of total for that group in parentheses.
| General | Control | PD | P Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 710 | 484 | |
| Gender | |||
| Male | 332 | 266 | 0.005 |
| Female | 378 | 218 | |
| Age | 68.4 ± 10.6 | 60.6 ± 10.1 | <0.001 |
| Age at onset | NA | 56.2 ± 10.2 | |
| HTN | 290(40.8) | 185(38.2) | 0.363 |