Verbal Reasoning Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease

Table 2

Verbal reasoning in PD and HCs. Univariate analysis.

	PD,	HCs,	OR	95% CI	-Value
Absurdities			0.9	0.84–1.07	0.399
Absurdities, pathological performance <11.73	59 (67.8)	52 (59.8)	1.4	0.76–2.63	0.270
Intruders			1.0	0.93–1.14	0.546
Intruders pathological performance <12.63	58 (66.7)	65 (74.7)	0.7	0.35–1.30	0.245
Relationships			0.9	0.87–1.05	0.370
Relationships pathological performance <12.20	73 (83.9)	66 (75.8)	1.6	0.78–3.52	0.188
Differences			0.9	0.77–1.05	0.212
Differences pathological performance <12.91	48 (55.2)	42 (48.2)	1.3	0.72–2.39	0.363
Idiomatic expressions			0.9	0.81–1.06	0.314
Idiomatic expressions pathological performance <11.83	40 (45.9)	42 (48.3)	0.9	0.50–1.65	0.761
Family relationship			0.9	0.87–1.03	0.207
Family relationship pathological performance <11.0	68 (78.2)	77 (88.5)	0.5	0.20–1.06	0.071
Classifications			0.8	0.70–0.98	0.033
Classifications pathological performance <13.20	53 (60.9)	36 (41.3)	2.2	1.20–4.04	0.010
Total score			0.9	0.95–1.00	0.115
Total score pathological performance <84.27	67 (77.0)	64 (73.5)	1.2	0.60–2.40	0.589

Data are expressed as mean ± standard deviation, and number and percentage. Abbreviations: PD = Parkinson’s disease; HC = healthy controls; OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence intervals.p-value<0.005.