Table 2 General linear model for the prediction of UPDRS-III scores.

From: Local striatal volume and motor reserve in drug-naïve Parkinson’s disease

Variables

β

Standard error

p value

Intercept

5.449

4.007

0.174

Age

0.266

0.055

<0.001

Sex

0.176

1.078

0.870

Disease duration

0.125

0.035

<0.001

ln (DAT availability)a

−6.782

1.532

<0.001

  1. DAT dopamine transporter, UPDRS-III Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale part III.
  2. aBecause the dopamine transporter availability in the posterior putamen was not normally distributed, its natural logarithm was used in the general linear model.
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