Table 1.

Demographics of the study population.

Characteristic	Falls (N = 81)	No falls (N = 77)	p-value
	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)
Age	75.37 (6.59)	75.19 (7.25)	0.87
	N (%)	N (%)
Gender			0.80
Female	30 (37.04)	30 (38.96)
Male	51 (62.96)	47 (61.04)
Ethnicity			0.07
Caucasian	53 (68.83)	67 (83.75)
African American	2 (2.60)	0 (0)
Hispanic	5 (6.49)	1 (1.25)
Asian	4 (5.19)	1 (1.25)
Hebrew/Jewish	2 (2.60)	0 (0)
Chose not to report	11 (14.29)	11 (13.75)
Years since diagnosis	8.89 (7.44)	7.21 (8.59)	0.19
Average number of falls	3.40 (5.57)	0 (0)
Freezing	45 (55.56)	19 (24.68)	<0.0001

SD: standard deviation.