Relation between Resting State Front-Parietal EEG Coherence and Executive Function in Parkinson’s Disease

Table 4

Effect of confounders on prevalence between EEG alpha coherence in the left frontoparietal electrode pair and age-controlled standardized BADS score in PD patients by multiple logistic regression analysis.

		SE			Odds ratio	95% CI
Age
≤50 years = 1	−0.42	0.30	1.86	0.17	0.66	0.36–1.20
51 to 60 years = 2
61 to 70 years = 3
>70 years = 4
Sex
Male = 1, female = 0	−1.03	0.56	3.45	0.063	0.36	0.12–1.06
Disease duration
Month, real number	0.0040	0.0057	0.50	0.48	1.00	0.99–1.02
HY stage
Real number	−0.24	0.43	0.31	0.58	0.79	0.34–1.82
Age-controlled standardized BADS score
Real number	0.031	0.015	4.25	0.039	1.03	1.002–1.062

A dichotomous dependent variable of EEG alpha coherence in the left frontoparietal electrode pair was assigned a value of 0 when coherence was <0.5 and 1 when coherence was ≥0.5.
BADS: Behavioral Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome; HY stage: Hoehn and Yahr stage; : regression coefficient; SE: standard error; 95% CI; 95% confidence interval.
Statistically significant ().