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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mov Disord. 2019 Oct 29;35(1):5–19. doi: 10.1002/mds.27867

Table 1:

Cluster Studies in LBD

Gasparoli et al., 2002 134 Dujardin et al., 2004 141 Lewis et al., 2005 137 Schrag et al., 2006 142 Post et al., 2008 143 Reijnders et al., 2009 145 Van Rooden et al., 2011 144 Fereshtehnejad et al., 2015 140 Erro et al., 2016 138 Fereshtehnejad et al., 2017 148 Morenas-Rodriguez et al., 2018 146

Design and Inclusion
 Patients, n 103 44 120 124 131 346 344 113 398 421 81
 Inclusion PD Dx <5y PD Dx <3y PD HY I-III None De Novo PD None PROPARKa None PPMI PPMI Probable DLBb
 Age, mean years (SD) NS 66 (median) 64.4 (9.3) 71.9 (11.0) 66.7 (10.4) 70.4c 60.8 (11.3) 66.7 (8.9) 63.2c 61.1 (9.7) 59.3 (48)
 Disease Duration, mean years (SD) NS 4 (median) 7.8 (5.4) 6.1 (4.4) 1.7 (0.9) 8.2 9.9 (6.2) 5.7 (4.2) NS 0.5 (0.5) 5.0 (3.2)
 Clustering Algorithm Type NS K-Means K-means K-Means K-Means K-Means Model Based K-means and agglomerative hierarchical K-means Agglomerative hierarchical K-means

Variables Included in Clustering Solution
Demographics

 Age of Onset

 Sex

Motor Features

 UPDRSII Motor Parkinsonismd

 UPDRS III Motor Parkinsonismd

 Rate of Motor Progression

 Motor Phenotype

 Motor Complications
 (fluctuations, dyskinesias)

Non-Motor Features

 Depression

 Anxiety

 Apathy

 Autonomic Dysfunction

 RBD

 Cognition

 Hallucinations

Clustering Solutions
 N 2 2 4 2 3 4 4 3 3 3 3
 Characteristics Older age/ rapid progression (39%)
Younger age/slower progression (61%)
Worse motor and cognitive impairment (36%)
Milder motor and preserved cognition (59%)
Young onset (41%)
Tremor dominant (17%)
Non-tremor dominant (26%)
Rapid motor progression (17%)
Young onset more depression (36%)
Older onset more rapid progression (64%)
Young onset (34%)
Intermediate age onset (27%)
Oldest age onset, more rapid motor progression (40%)
Young Onset (29%)
Tremor dominant (47%)
Non tremor predominant with psychopathology (17%)
Rapid disease progression (6%)
Young mild (49%)
Youngest with motor and non-motor complications (13%)
Older and intermediately affected (30%)
Diffuse and severely affected (8%)
Mainly motor (38%)
Intermediate (27%)
Diffuse malignant (35%)
Mild motor/slow progression (45%)
Worse motor (38%)
Worse motor and non-motor burden (17%)
Mild motor predominant (52%)
Intermediate (38%). Diffuse malignant (9%)
Cognitive predominant (57%)
Neuro-psychiatric predominant (27%)
Parkinsonism predominant (16%)

Abbreviations: PD: parkinson’s disease. Dx: diagnosis. HY: Hoehn and Yahr. PPMI: Parkinson’s Progression Marker Initiative. NS: not stated. RBD: REM sleep behavior disorder (either reported of polysomnogram proven)

Grey boxes indicate variables used to determine clusters

a

PROPARK Cohort from Verbaan D, Marinus J, Visser M, et al. Cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2007;78(11):1182–1187

b

Probable DLB from McKeith IG, Dickson DW, Lowe J, et al. Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies: third report of the DLB Consortium. Neurology 2005;65(12):1863–1872.

c

Derived from cluster averages

d

Motor parkinsonism derived from chart review, not UPDRS parts II and III