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. 2018 Jun 18;15:49. doi: 10.1186/s12984-018-0398-3

Table 3.

Mean and standard deviation of the gait measures in the two groups

Healthy Controls (HC) PD ON PD OFF Effect Size & p-value
HC vs PD ON HC vs PD OFF ON vs OFF
SPARC Acc -5.17 ± 0.79 −6.11 ± 0.74 −6.74 ± 0.64 1.25 (<  0.001) 2.29 (0.001) <  0.001
V − 5.08 ± 0.74 − 5.22 ± 0.78 − 5.74 ± 0.88 0.17 (0.107) 0.78 (0.001) <  0.001
AP −5.57 ± 0.74 −5.80 ± 0.80 − 6.44 ± 0.77 0.30 (0.190) 1.14 (0.001) <  0.001
ML − 5.44 ± 0.32 −5.60 ± 0.48 −5.96 ± 0.50 0.35 (0.388) 1.13 (0.005) <  0.001
Gyr −4.87 ± 0.55 −5.00 ± 0.52 −5.43 ± 0.53 0.25 (0.156) 1.06 (<  0.001) <  0.001
Yaw −5.96 ± 0.81 −5.92 ± 0.85 −6.47 ± 0.82 − 0.05 (0.037) 0.63 (0.002) <  0.001
Roll − 5.80 ± 0.73 −5.97 ± 0.60 −6.51 ± 0.70 0.26 (0.229) 1.01 (0.007) <  0.001
Pitch −6.28 ± 0.75 −6.55 ± 0.86 − 7.09 ± 0.91 0.32 (0.365) 0.94 (0.002) <  0.001
Harmonic ratios V 3.10 ± 0.90 2.75 ± 0.82 2.95 ± 0.85 0.42 (0.998) 0.17 (0.092) <  0.001
AP 2.08 ± 0.48 2.04 ± 0.74 2.54 ± 0.93 0.06 (0.800) − 0.55 (0.240) <  0.001
ML 0.60 ± 0.11 0.56 ± 0.09 0.52 ± 0.08 0.33 (0.002) 0.89 (<  0.001) <  0.001
Mean Gait Speed 1.18 ± 0.24 1.16 ± 0.20 1.13 ± 0.19 0.05 (0.028) 0.21 (0.008) 0.117
Stride Time Mean 1.04 ± 0.06 1.09 ± 0.09 1.09 ± 0.09 − 0.62 (0.048) − 0.53 (0.365) 0.550
Variability 3.43 ± 1.17 4.72 ± 3.05 5.84 ± 4.92 − 0.48 (0.044) − 0.57 (0.055) 0.826

Note: Significant results are displayed in bold

Analysis was also performed without controlling for weight which did not modify the outcomes