Research Article

Physical Activity across Frailty Phenotypes in Females with Parkinson’s Disease

Table 1

Participant characteristics across frailty phenotypes in PD and non-PD females.

PDNon-PD
NonfrailPrefrailFrailNonfrailPrefrailFrail

𝑁 474843
Age69 ± 165 ± 1063 ± 1163 ± 8ab79 ± 14b90 ± 6
Body mass index (kg/m2)26.31 ± 5.622.95 ± 4.325.06 ± 4.323.20 ± 5.734.60 ± 5.432.49 ± 12.2
Number of medications4.0 ± 2.02.9 ± 1.53.3 ± 2.61.3 ± 1.36.0 ± 4.25.3 ± 0.6
mg carbidopa-levodopa per day366.67 ± 57.7571.43 ± 340.2825.00 ± 330.4
carbidopa-levodopa only ( 𝑁 )232
carbidopa-levodopa + pram ( 𝑁 )220
carbidopa-levodopa + enta ( 𝑁 )001
carbidopa-levodopa + enta + pram ( 𝑁 )011
carbidopa-levodopa + aman + rop ( 𝑁 )010
Hoehn & Yahr disease severity1.83 ± 0.81.86 ± 0.62.50 ± 0.4

PD: Parkinson’s disease, 𝑁 : number, kg: kilogram, m: meter, mg: milligram, pram: pramipexole, enta: entacapone, aman, amantadine, and rop: ropinirole.
aSignificantly different from prefrail.
bSignificantly different from frail.