Table 1.
Basic statistics
| Healthy volunteers | Patients (follow-up diagnoses) | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPS or DLB | Non-IPS | ||||
| Sex | Women, N | 16 | 9 | 2 | 26 |
| Men, N | 14 | 17 | 1 | 32 | |
| Age at inclusion, years | Median | 70.0 | 68.8 | 71.6 | 69.3 |
| Mean | 70.3 | 68.3 | 68.4 | 69.3 | |
| SD | 4.7 | 7.6 | 12.3 | 6.5 | |
| Symptoms’ duration, years | Median | – | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.7 |
| Mean | – | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.2 | |
| SD | – | 1.2 | 0.6 | 1.1 | |
| Baseline UPDRS III | Median | 0.5 | 23 | 17 | 7 |
| Mean | 1 | 23 | 16 | 11 | |
| SD | 2 | 7 | 6 | 12 | |
| Baseline MMSE | Median | 30 | 29 | 30 | 29 |
| Mean | 29 | 29 | 30 | 29 | |
| SD | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
IPS Idiopathic parkinsonian syndromes, i.e., degenerative parkinsonian syndrome, such as Parkinson’s disease or atypical parkinsonian syndrome. DLB Dementia with Lewy bodies
Non-IPS Patients with non-degenerative parkinsonism, e.g., vascular parkinsonism or other condition with tremor or Parkinson-like symptoms