TABLE 2.

Annual change in single SARA item scores and aggregated subscores in male and female SCA3 patients

	Sex
	Male (n = 80)		Female (n = 76)		Difference
	Mean ± SD	% of total	Mean ± SD	% of total	P value
Single items
Gait	0.30 ± 0.85	14.9	0.17 ± 0.90	17.7	0.36
Stance	0.35 ± 0.87	17.3	0.18 ± 1.20	18.8	0.32
Sitting	0.31 ± 0.76	15.3	0.22 ± 0.70	22.9	0.45
Speech	0.19 ± 0.77	9.4	0.21 ± 0.68	21.9	0.84
Finger chase	0.11 ± 0.65	5.4	0.11 ± 0.55	11.5	0.99
Nose‐finger test	0.04 ± 0.63	2.0	−0.08 ± 0.66	−8.3	0.24
Diadochokinesia	0.34 ± 0.73	16.8	0.08 ± 0.77	8.3	0.033
Heel‐shin slide	0.38 ± 0.71	18.8	0.07 ± 0.78	7.3	0.009
Aggregated subscores
Axial	0.96 ± 1.62	47.5	0.58 ± 1.97	60.4	0.19
Upper limb	0.49 ± 1.38	24.3	0.11 ± 1.22	11.5	0.069
Appendicular	0.87 ± 1.69	43.1	0.17 ± 1.53	17.7	0.008
Total	2.02 ± 2.78	100	0.96 ± 2.85	100	0.02