Therapeutic Effects of Tai Chi in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

Table 2

Characteristics of 20 participants with clinically stable mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease randomized to therapeutic Tai Chi or a no exercise control condition.

Variable	Treatment group
	Tai Chi	No exercise control
Number (n)	11	9
Age (years)	60.81±7.6	65.54±6.8
BMI (kg·m^−2)	24.93±3.7	25.41±3.0
Years since diagnosis	5.2±2.7	5.2±2.7
Hoehn-Yahr stage	1.6±0.6	1.8±0.3

Note: table values are means ± standard deviations.
There were no significant differences between groups on any of the variables.