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

Table 2

Pain intensity and therapy in PD and MSA patients with pain.

	PD patients with pain	MSA patients with pain	Test value	P value
Number of subjects (sex ratio)	49 (26 men, 23 women)	30 (19 men, 11 women)	0.437^a	0.509^a
Age in years	60.10 ± 8.48	63.3 ± 8.40	−1.65^b	0.103^b
Disease duration in years	4.37 ± 3.01	2.56 ± 2.67	2.707^b	0.008^b
VAS (1–10)	5.08 ± 1.98	4.47 ± 1.60	1.46^b	0.148^b
Therapy for pain	21	13
Pain improvement with dopaminergic therapy	13	6

VAS, visual analogue scale. ^aChi-square test. ^bIndependent-samples t-test. .