Research Article

The Effect of Parkinson’s Disease on Patients Undergoing Lumbar Spine Surgery

Table 2

Patients with and without PD undergoing lumbar spine surgery.

DemographicsNo PDPD value

Mean age58.970.7<0.0001

Age groups<0.0001
 0–4418.530.45
 45–6442.0921.57
 >6539.3177.94

Gender
 Male47.0758.61<0.0001
 Female52.9341.39<0.0001

Race<0.0001
 White65.0869.81
 Black4.871.42
 Hispanic4.173.75
 Asian0.781.31
 Native American0.290.15
 Other1.751.62
 Missing23.0621.93

Insurance<0.0001
 Medicare41.1377.66
 Medicaid6.373.50
 Private41.9617.04
 Uninsured0.830.34
 Other9.521.35
 Missing0.190.11

Procedures
 Lumbar fusion53.9840.56<0.0001
 Lumbar decompression without fusion42.2355.42<0.0001
 Lumbar fusion revision3.794.020.488

Modified Elixhauser index0.320.70<0.0001

PD: Parkinson’s disease.