Weight Loss in Parkinson’s Disease: The Relationship with Motor Symptoms and Disease Progression

Table 3

Changes in appetite and food intake among subjects that presented weight loss.

Appetite/ food intake	Weight losers (n= 95)
	PD patients (n= 70)	Controls (n= 25)
	n (%)	n (%)	p value
Increased	23 (32.9)	0 (0)	0.001
Decreased	22 (31.4)	6 (24)	ns
Unchanged	25 (35.7)	19 (76)	0.001

PD= Parkinson’s disease; WL= weight loss; ns= not significant; n= number of cases