Research Article
Gait Difficulty, Postural Instability, and Muscle Weakness Are Associated with Fear of Falling in People with Parkinson's Disease
Table 1
Subject characteristics.
| | People with PD () |
| | Demographics | | | Age (years) | 63.7 (8.5) | | Height (cm) | 161.2 (8.1) | | Weight (kg) | 61.1 (10.1) | | Female gender, (%) | 22 (38.6) | | Fallers, (%) | 19 (33.3) | | Parkinson’s disease characteristics | | | Years since diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (years) | 7.6 (4.6) | | Hoehn and Yahr stage (0–5) | 2.5 (1.0)# | | UPDRS—motor score III (0–108) | 22.6 (6.5) | | UPDRS-PG (0–16) | 4.0 (2.0)# | | Knee muscle strength (Nm) | 34.4 (13.3) | | ABC score (0–100) | 73.6 (19.3) |
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Data shown are means (standard deviations), #median (interquartile range), ABC: activities-specific balance confidence, UPDRS: unified Parkinson’s disease rating scale, UPDRS-PG: unified Parkinson’s disease rating scale (items 27–30).
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