Salivary Acetylcholinesterase Activity Is Increased in Parkinson’s Disease: A Potential Marker of Parasympathetic Dysfunction

Table 1

Clinical and demographic characteristics of patients and controls.

	Controls; ()	PD patients; ()	value
Age	62.7 ± 9.4	63.7 ± 9.1	0.6
Sex (M/F)	27/22	16/14	0.88
MMSE	28.9 ± 1.1	28.6 ± 1.5	0.5
UPDRS III	N/A	27 ± 12.8	N/A
H&Y stage	N/A	1.9 ± 0.5	N/A
Duration since PD diagnosis (years)	N/A	4.8 ± 3.3	N/A

All values are mean ± SD.