Table 2.

Psychogeriatric evaluation of study participants. We reported mean ± standard deviation. For comparisons between groups the U Mann–Whitney test. T was used.

	Parkinson’s Disease	Control	P Value
Performance in the activities of daily life (Barthel score)	57.9 ± 6.2	62.5 ± 3.2	0.23
Gait and balance (Tinetti scale)	12.7 ± 2.6	16.3 ± 1.1	0.01
Depressive symptoms (Yesavage scale)	3.7 ± 1.2	3.5 ± 0.6	0.65
Cognitive function (MEC score)	28.1 ± 2.6	29.6 ± 0.9	0.21
Charlson comorbidity (age-adjusted) index	5.8 ± 1.6	5.8 ± 0.5	0.71