TABLE 1.

Clinical characteristics of the patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and healthy controls (HC).

	HC (n = 40)	PD
		Early (n = 24)	Advanced (n = 18)	Total (n = 42)
Sex (female/male)	19/21	9/15	8/10	17/25
Age (years)	65.85 ± 7.52	61.58 ± 9.57	71.61 ± 9.15	65.88 ± 10.55
Duration (years)		5.78 ± 4.94	13.06 ± 6.58	8.88 ± 6.69
Hoehn and Yahr stage		1.54 ± 0.51	3.22 ± 0.43	2.17 ± 0.93
LEDD (mg)		549.73 ± 548.88	1422.69 ± 662.50	923.86 ± 736.32
UPDRS-total		23.38 ± 6.53	69.29 ± 21.71	42.37 ± 27.15
UPDRS-part III		13.92 ± 5.40	40.36 ± 12.54	24.88 ± 15.93
MMSE	29.62 ± 0.72	28.33 ± 2.76	22.59 ± 6.48	25.95 ± 5.42
CDR	0.13 ± 0.22	0.27 ± 0.25	0.59 ± 0.40	0.41 ± 0.36