Impact of Sex on the Nonmotor Symptoms and the Health-Related Quality of Life in Parkinson’s Disease

Table 1

Basic characteristics of the study population ().

		Mean	SD	Count	Percentage
Age at PD onset (years)		59.4	11.6
Age at PD onset (years)	<36 years			14	2.3%
	36–45 years			63	10.1%
	46–55 years			144	23.2%
	56–65 years			205	33.0%
	66–75 years			144	23.2%
	>75 years			51	8.2%
Disease duration (years)		7.6	6.1
Disease duration (years)	0–5 years			241	38.8%
	6–10 years			186	30.0%
	11–15 years			124	20.0%
	>15 years			70	11.3%
Gender	Male			361	58.1%
	Female			260	41.9%
Handedness	Right handed			589	94.8%
	Left handed			32	5.2%
Dominant side	Right dominance			356	57.3%
	Left dominance			265	42.7%
Education (years)		12.3	3.3
PD type	Rigid-akinetic			247	39.8%
	Tremor dominant			194	31.2%
	Mixed type			180	29.0%
Hoehn-Yahr stage	1			29	4.7%
	2			315	50.7%
	3			164	26.4%
	4			94	15.1%
	5			19	3.1%
Fluctuation (years)		6.5	4.2
Presence of fluctuations	No			387	62.3%
	Yes			234	37.7%
Working status	Full time job			54	8.7%
	Part-time job			73	11.7%
	No job due to illness			236	37.9%
	No job unrelated to illness			258	41.7%
Housework status	Does household work independently			347	55.9%
	With others’ help does household work			146	23.5%
	Fully self-dependent but does not perform housework			67	10.8%
	Partly self-dependent			43	6.9%
	Requires full support			18	2.9%

SD: standard deviation.