Research Article
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) | 0.437a | 0.509a | Age in years | 60.10 ± 8.48 | 63.3 ± 8.40 | −1.65b | 0.103b | Disease duration in years | 4.37 ± 3.01 | 2.56 ± 2.67 | 2.707b | 0.008b | VAS (1–10) | 5.08 ± 1.98 | 4.47 ± 1.60 | 1.46b | 0.148b | Therapy for pain | 21 | 13 | | | Pain improvement with dopaminergic therapy | 13 | 6 | | |
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VAS, visual analogue scale. aChi-square test. bIndependent-samples t-test. . |