A Comparison of Pain between Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple System Atrophy: A Clinical Cross-Sectional Survey

Table 1

Demographic data and presence of pain for the PD patients, MSA patients, and healthy controls.

	PD	MSA	HC	PD vs MSA ( value)	PD vs HC ( value)	MSA vs HC ( value)
Number of subjects (sex ratio)	71 (39 men, 32 women)	65 (43 men, 22 women)	40 (24 men, 16 women)	0.181^a	0.691^a	0.538^a
Age in years	59.72 ± 9.38	62.65 ± 8.13	62.83 ± 7.17	0.055^b	0.072^b	0.909^b
Disease duration in years	4.03 ± 3.50	2.35 ± 2.10		<0.01^b
Pain frequency, n (%)	49 (69.1%)	30 (46.19%)	6 (15%)	0.007^a	<0.01^a	<0.01^a

^aChi-square test. ^bIndependent-samples t-test. .