Research Article

Improvement by Medication Less than Expected in Parkinson’s Disease: Blinded Evaluation of Levodopa Response

Table 1

Demographic data and MoCA score for patients with PD and control subjects.

VariablesPD (n = 37)CS (n = 29) value

Age (y)66 63 0.522
No. of men/women (%)22/15 (59.5/40.5)13/16 (44.8/55.2)0.321
Education (y)16 15.5 0.176
MoCA score27 29 0.005
BDI8 1 <0.001

PD, Parkinson’s disease; CS, control subjects; MoCA, Montreal Cognitive Assessment; BDI, Beck’s Depression Inventory. All values are reported as the median [minimum, maximum] or absolute frequency (relative frequency in %).