Table 1 Demographics of healthy controls and Parkinson’s disease patients in discovery dataset

From: Identifying brain degeneration patterns in early-stage Parkinson’s disease: a multimodal MRI study

 

Parkinson’s disease patients

Healthy controls

 

Variable

(n = 179)

(n = 115)

p value

Age, years

56.77 ± 10.53

56.67 ± 4.88

0.930

Sex, male

100 (55.87%)

58 (50.43%)

0.362

Education, years

9.00 (7.00)

10.00 (4.00)

<0.001

  1. Continuous variables are presented as mean ± standard deviation or median (interquartile range); categorical data are presented as number (percentage). Significant p values are shown in bold.