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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Parkinsons Dis. 2020;10(2):693–705. doi: 10.3233/JPD-191793

Table 1.

Characteristics of Parkinson disease cases and controls, U.S. Medicare 2009

Cases
N=89,790
Controls
N=21,549,400
n (%) n (%)
Sexa
 Male 44,684 (49.8) 9,287,842 (43.1)
 Female 45,106 (50.2) 12,261,500 (56.9)
Race/ethnicity
 White 79,697 (88.8) 18,616,341 (86.4)
 Black 5,386 (6.0) 1,635,170 (7.6)
 Hispanic 1,904 (2.1) 399,355 (1.9)
 Asian 1,565 (1.7) 460,214 (2.1)
 Native American 285 (0.3) 92,978 (0.4)
 Pacific Islander/other 872 (1.0) 324,397 (1.5)
 Unknown 81 (0.1) 20,945 (0.1)
Smoking indexb,c ≥ median 38,492 (42.9) 65,451 (55.4)
UV-related cancerd 19,560 (21.8) 19,997 (16.9)
Age, years
 Mean (SD) 78.8 (6.1) 76.0 (6.2)
 Minimum 66 66
 Median 79 75
 Maximum 90 90
Number of physician visits
 Mean (SD) 14.7 (12.4) 10.5 (10.6)
 Minimum 0 0
 Median 12 8
 Maximum 289 655
Number of diagnosesc,e
 Mean (SD) 100.9 (54) 65.6 (47.1)
 Minimum 0 0
 Median 94 58
 Maximum 441 441
Agricultural pesticides, kg/acref
 Mean (SD) 0.26 (0.54) 0.26 (0.54)
 Minimum 0 0
 Median 0.08 0.08
 Maximum 6.12 6.12
Environmental tobacco smoke, %g
 Mean (SD) 16.2 (4.2) 16.3 (4.2)
 Minimum 5.7 5.7
 Median 16.3 16.3
 Maximum 31.3 31.3

Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation; International Classification of Diseases Ninth Revision Clinical Modification, ICD-9; kg, kilograms.

a

Numbers and percentages of controls exclude 58 (0.0003%) controls with unknown sex.

b

Predicted probability of ever smoking tobacco divided by the person’s total number of unique diagnosis codes (or 1 for 292 cases and 6,227 controls without any diagnosis codes).

c

Available for all cases and for all controls in a randomly selected subset of 118,095 controls for whom claims data were available.

d

Lip, skin and selected eye cancers[59] as a proxy for lifetime outdoor physical activity, including from outdoor occupations.

e

Total number of unique ICD-9 diagnosis codes up to the PD diagnosis/control reference date.

f

Total kilograms of agricultural pesticides applied in 2009 in the county of residence in 2009, divided by the total number of agricultural and non-agricultural acres in the county. Excludes 1268 (1.4%) of cases and 327,323 (1.5%) of controls.

g

Percent of individuals in the county of residence who smoked daily in 2009.