Table 2.
Age and Sex Specific Frequencies of Parkinsonian Signs, Parkinsonism, and Possible Parkinsonism
| Domain | All Ages N (%) |
Age Interval | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| <75 N (%) |
75–84 N (%) |
85+ N (%) |
||
| Cases | 2,962 | 1,005 (33.9) | 1,360 (45.9) | 597 (20.2) |
| Women | 2,138 (72.2) | 721 (71.7) | 979 (72.0) | 438 (73.4) |
| Men | 824 (27.8) | 284 (28.3) | 381 (28.0) | 159 (26.6) |
| Gait | 1,143 (38.6) | 169 (16.8) | 581 (42.7) | 393 (65.8) |
| Women | 846 (39.6) | 124 (17.2) | 430 (43.9) | 292 (66.7) |
| Men | 297 (36.0) | 45 (15.8) | 151 (39.3) | 101(63.5) |
| Rigidity | 362 (12.2) | 74 (7.4) | 175 (12.9) | 113 (18.9) |
| Women | 221 (10.3) | 43 (6.0) | 102 (10.4) | 76 (17.4) |
| Men | 141 (17.1) | 31 (10.9) | 73 (19.2) | 37 (23.3) |
| Bradykinesia | 588 (19.9) | 113 (11.2) | 293 (21.5) | 182 (30.5) |
| Women | 440 (20.6) | 87 (12.1) | 218 (22.3) | 135 (30.8) |
| Men | 148 (18.0) | 26 (9.2) | 75 (19.7) | 47 (29.6) |
| Postural/rest tremor | 668 (22.6) | 152 (15.1) | 360 (26.5) | 156 (26.1) |
| Women | 363 (17.0) | 62 (8.6) | 206 (21.0) | 95 (21.7) |
| Men | 305 (37.0) | 90 (31.7) | 154 (40.4) | 61 (38.4) |
| Possible parkinsonism | 885 (29.9) | 225 (22.4) | 456 (33.5) | 204 (34.2) |
| Women | 614 (28.7) | 141 (19.6) | 329 (33.6) | 144 (32.9) |
| Men | 271 (32.9) | 84 (29.6) | 127 (33.3) | 60 (37.7) |
| Parkinsonism | 776 (26.2) | 119 (11.8) | 396 (29.1) | 261 (43.7) |
| Women | 529 (24.7) | 76 (10.5) | 263 (26.9) | 190 (43.4) |
| Men | 247 (30.0) | 43 (15.1) | 133 (34.9) | 71 (44.7) |