Research Article
Gender Was Associated with Depression but Not with Gastrointestinal Dysfunction in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
Table 1
General information of male and female PD patients.
| | Total PD (n = 186) | M-PD (n = 95, 51.08%) | FM-PD (n = 91, 48.92%) | t/Z/χ2 | P |
| | Age (y) | 67.53 ± 8.52 | 67.72 ± 9.55 | 67.37 ± 7.36 | 0.277 | 0.783 | | Education (y) | 7.09 ± 4.49 | 8.07 ± 4.12 | 6.08 ± 4.65 | 3.105 | 0.002 | | Height (m) | 1.64 ± 0.07 | 1.69 ± 0.06 | 1.58 ± 0.05 | 13.560 | < 0.001 | | Weight (Kg) | 63.30 ± 10.35 | 67.26 ± 10.40 | 59.17 ± 8.57 | 5.777 | < 0.001 | | BMI | 23.59 ± 3.22 | 23.59 ± 3.32 | 23.59 ± 3.13 | −0.016 | 0.987 | | Occupational exposure to insecticidal/herbicides | 7 (3.8%) | 2 (2.1%) | 5 (5.5%) | 1.474 | 0.225 | | Hypertension | 30 (16.1%) | 14 (14.7%) | 16 (17.6%) | 0.278 | 0.598 | | Diabetes mellitus | 17 (9.1%) | 6 (6.3%) | 11 (12.1%) | 1.865 | 0.172 | | Smoke | 25 (13.4%) | 12 (12.6%) | 13 (14.3%) | 0.109 | 0.741 | | Alcohol drinking | 19 (10.2%) | 11 (11.6%) | 8 (8.8%) | 0.394 | 0.530 | | LED (mg) | 400 (300–550) | 375 (300–550) | 437.5 (300–550) | −0.804 | 0.422 | | Disease duration (m) | 48 (21.75–84) | 48 (23–84) | 48 (18–88) | −0.241 | 0.810 |
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PD: Parkinson’s Disease; M-PD: male patients with PD; FM-PD: female patients with PD; BMI: body mass index; LED: daily levodopa-equivalent dose.
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