Vascular Inflammation Is a Risk Factor Associated with Brain Atrophy and Disease Severity in Parkinson’s Disease: A Case-Control Study

Table 1

Demographic data of PD patients and controls.

Parameters	PD patients ()	Controls ()
Age (year) ()			0.072
Sex (M, F)	11, 22	7, 20	0.160
UPDRS I
UPDRS II
UPDRS III
UPDRS 176
Modified HY-stage (maximum stage is 5)
SE-ADL (minimum score 0 suggests the presence of only vegetative function)
MMSE			0.010

Abbreviations: PD: Parkinson’s disease; UPDRS: Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale; modified HY-stage: modified Hoehn and Yahr Staging Scale; SE-ADL: Schwab and England Activities of Daily Living Scale; MMSE: Mini-Mental State Examination. Data are presented as . indicates a value of less than 0.05.