The Effects of Uric Acid, Serum Vitamin D3, and Their Interaction on Parkinson’s Disease Severity

Table 1

The mean values of uric acid level, vitamin D3 level, and UPDRS score in total study sample and in different age and sex groups.

	UA (mg/dL)	value	Serum vitamin D3 (ng/mL)	value	Duration (month)	value	UPDRS	value
Total sample	5.45 + 1.54	—	28.47 + 14.24	—	56.61 + 40.8	—	23.09 + 17.86	—
Age (year)
≤62	5.32 ± 1.70	0.377	24.82 ± 12.32	0.008	52.22 ± 43.09	0.401	19.21 ± 18.06	0.017
>62	5.57 ± 1.38		32.14 ± 16.15		61.00 ± 38.51		26.98 ± 17.64
Sex
Male	5.53 ± 1.33	0.354	28.68 ± 14.57	0.604	56.16 ± 47.34	0.686	24.30 ± 18.84	0.251
Female	5.25 ± 1.94		27.10 ± 14.94		60.02 ± 54.54		20.29 ± 16.76

UPDRS: Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale III; UA: uric acid. All presented value resulted from independent samples -test or Mann-Whitney test.