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. 2015 Jun 11;1:15011. doi: 10.1038/npjparkd.2015.11

Table 1. Demographics and motor and nonmotor scale scores between fallers and non-fallers.

Median (range) or Number (%)
P-value a
Fallers (n=27) Non-fallers (n=60)
Demographics
 Age (years) 70 (58–83) 67.5 (44–86) 0.44
 Disease duration (years) 10.8 (0.1–29.1) 4.1 (0–22.8) 0.005
     
Motor features
 MDS-UPDRS part III 36 (12–65) 34 (9–70) 0.24
 Dyskinesia (% daytime) 6 (0–75) 0 (0–53) 0.005
 ‘On’ without dyskinesia (%) 76 (12–100) 100 (7–100) 0.006
 ‘Off’ time (%) 12 (0–56) 0 (0–54) 0.04
 Hoehn and Yahr stage 3 (1–4) 2 (2–5) 0.018
     
Cognition
 SCOPA-COG-total 23 (9–32) 26 (6–39) 0.02
 SCOPA-COG-memory 8 (3–13) 9 (1–18) 0.07
 SCOPA-COG-attention 4 (2–4) 4 (0–4) 0.24
 SCOPA-COG-executive 8 (2–12) 9 (2–12) 0.003
 SCOPA-COG-visuospatial 4 (1–5) 4 (0–5) 0.25
     
Sleep
 PSQI 7 (2–19) 5 (1–18) 0.007
 Epworth Sleepiness Score 11 (1–20) 5.5 (0–20) 0.04
 Presence of RBD 13/27 (48%) 11/60 (18%) 0.004
     
Psychosis, apathy, fatigue, and depression
 PPRS 9 (6–14) 6 (6–15) <0.001
 Lille Apathy Rating Scale −25 (−35 to −3) −26.5 (−35 to –2) 0.30
 Fatigue Severity Scale 4.6 (1.8–7) 4.0 (0–7) 0.06
 HADS anxiety 7 (1–15) 4.5 (0–16) 0.06
 HADS depression 6 (2–12) 4.5 (0–18) 0.11
     
Autonomic function
 SCOPA-AUT-total 18 (11–36) 10 (3–35) <0.001
 SCOPA-AUT-gastrointestinal 4 (1–8) 2 (0–10) <0.004
 SCOPA-AUT-urinary 7 (1–15) 4 (0–16) 0.02
 SCOPA-AUT-cardiovascular 1 (0–6) 0 (0–3) 0.001
 SCOPA-AUT-thermoregulatory 2 (0–11) 1 (0–10) 0.07
 SCOPA-AUT-pupillomotor 1 (0–3) 0 (0–3) 0.001
 SCOPA-AUT-sexual 3 (0–6) 2 (0–6) 0.14

Abbreviations: HADS, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; MDS-UPDRS, Movement Disorder Society-Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale; PPRS, Parkinson Psychosis Rating Scale; PSQI, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; RBD, REM sleep behavioral disorder; SCOPA-AUT, Scales For Outcomes in Parkinson's Disease Autonomic questionnaire; SCOPA-COG, Scales For Outcomes in Parkinson's Disease Cognition.

a

Mann–Whitney or χ 2-test.