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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 3.
Published in final edited form as: Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2016 Jan 18;3(5):465–471. doi: 10.1002/mdc3.12309

Table 1. Demographic and Disease Characteristics of Subjects with and Without Deep Brain Stimulation. Values reported are mean ± SD.

Variable DBS Group (n = 100) Non-DBS Group (n = 684) P
Age of onset 40.3 ± 7.1 41.7 ± 6.9 0.06
Age at baseline evaluation 56.7 ± 7.9 51.6 ± 9.1 <0.0001
Disease duration, y 16.5 ± 6.8 9.9 ± 7.8 <0.0001
AJ ancestry, % of subjects 15.0 15.8 0.81
Ethnicity, %a
 White 83.0 82.0 0.51
 African-American 0.0 15.0
 Hispanic 13.0 12.3
 Other 4.0 3.51
 UPDRS-IIIb 24.8 13.1 20.3 11.7 0.002
 MMSEc 28.8 ± 1.9 28.9 ± 2.1 0.22
 Prior history of dyskinesia, % of subjectsd 78.3 37.9 <0.0001
 Prevalence of mutation carriers, %e 26.5 16.8 0.019
a

Non-DBS, n = 683.

b

DBS, n = 89; non-DBS, n = 641.

c

DBS, n = 97; non-DBS, n = 664.

d

DBS, n = 83; non-DBS, n = 475.

e

DBS, n = 98; non-DBS, n = 661.

SD, standard deviation; DBS, deep brain stimulation; AJ, Ashkenazi Jewish; MMSE, Mini Mental Status Examination; UPDRS-III, the motor subsection of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale.