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.
| Demographics | No PD | PD | value |
| Mean age | 58.9 | 70.7 | <0.0001 |
| Age groups | | | <0.0001 | 0–44 | 18.53 | 0.45 | | 45–64 | 42.09 | 21.57 | | >65 | 39.31 | 77.94 | |
| Gender | | | | Male | 47.07 | 58.61 | <0.0001 | Female | 52.93 | 41.39 | <0.0001 |
| Race | | | <0.0001 | White | 65.08 | 69.81 | | Black | 4.87 | 1.42 | | Hispanic | 4.17 | 3.75 | | Asian | 0.78 | 1.31 | | Native American | 0.29 | 0.15 | | Other | 1.75 | 1.62 | | Missing | 23.06 | 21.93 | |
| Insurance | | | <0.0001 | Medicare | 41.13 | 77.66 | | Medicaid | 6.37 | 3.50 | | Private | 41.96 | 17.04 | | Uninsured | 0.83 | 0.34 | | Other | 9.52 | 1.35 | | Missing | 0.19 | 0.11 | |
| Procedures | | | | Lumbar fusion | 53.98 | 40.56 | <0.0001 | Lumbar decompression without fusion | 42.23 | 55.42 | <0.0001 | Lumbar fusion revision | 3.79 | 4.02 | 0.488 |
| Modified Elixhauser index | 0.32 | 0.70 | <0.0001 |
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PD: Parkinson’s disease.
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