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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2019 Dec 6;21(1-2):42–50. doi: 10.1080/21678421.2019.1697888

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical information of the dataset included in this study. Means of each group are provided with standard deviations in parentheses.

ALS (n=272) Controls (n=251)
Females : males 155:117 116:135
Age 58.29 (10.05) 50.89 (13.03)
Total # of Sessions 775 320
Median # of Sessions per subject 2.00 (3.00) 1.00 (1.00)
Onset, spinal : bulbar 228:44 -
Disease duration (months) 28.08 (24.17) -
ASLFRS-R total 35.41 (7.36) -
ALSFRS-R bulbar 10.46 (2.15) -
% FVC 82.85 (22.15) -
% Intelligibility, SIT 94.11 (14.01) 98.55 (1.22)
Speaking rate, SIT (WPM) 156.23 (41.07) 198.07 (21.80)

ALSFRS-R: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Functional Rating Scale-Revised (5); %FVC: % Forced vital capacity; SIT: Speech Intelligibility Test; WPM: Words per minute