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. 2017 Apr 27;12(4):e0175559. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175559

Table 1. Sample description, including the results of MMSE, FES-1-Brazil, TUG, TUG-M, TUG-C and p-values for statistical tests comparing the groups: non-faller and faller.

		non-faller	faller	p-value
n		18	18
Age	μ ± σ	70.94 ± 6.69	75.25 ± 8.20	0.102^a
Gender	Female	10 (56%)	15 (83%)	0.146^b
Gender	Male	8 (44%)	3 (17%)	0.146^b
MMSE	μ ± σ	26.46 ± 4.35	23.75 ± 3.93	0.117^a
FES	μ ± σ	24.62 ± 7.74	21.00 ± 6.55	0.222^a
TUG (s)	μ ± σ	9.026 ± 2.376	10.395 ± 2.713	0.094^a
TUG-M (s)	μ ± σ	9.790 ± 3.016	10.974 ± 2.713	0.232^a
TUG-C (s)	μ ± σ	13.806 ± 5.962	17.016 ± 6.250	0.130^a
TUG avg (s)	μ ± σ	10.870 ± 3.480	12.790 ± 3.261	0.067^a
TUG-M—TUG (s)	μ ± σ	1.028 ± 1.055	0.972 ± 0.804	0.863^a
TUG-C—TUG (s)	μ ± σ	4.201 ± 4.361	6.123 ± 5.281	0.248^a
TUG-M—TUG-C (s)	μ ± σ	4.872 ± 4.307	6.677 ± 5.355	0.279^a
steps TUG	μ ± σ	13.954 ± 3.261	16.111 ± 4.114	0.090^a
steps TUG-M	μ ± σ	14.500 ± 2.727	15.500 ± 3.976	0.430^a
steps TUG-C	μ ± σ	17.012 ± 4.958	18.556 ± 6.608	0.387^a

^a—p-values for t-test;

^b—p-value for Fisher’s exact test.