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

Table 3

Clinical characteristics of the PD patients with and without pain.

	PD patients with pain	PD patients without pain	Test value	P value
Number of subjects (sex ratio)	49 (26 men, 23 women)	22 (13 men, 9 women)	0.223^a	0.637^a
Age in years	60.10 ± 8.48	58.86 ± 11.31	0.512^b	0.61^b
Disease duration in years	4.37 ± 3.01	3.29 ± 4.40	2.359^b	0.018^b
HY stage	2.64 ± 0.89	1.68 ± 0.50	4.312^b	<0.01^b
UPDRS-III	26.33 ± 11.77	17.95 ± 11.82	3.037^b	0.002^b
HAD-A	6.20 ± 2.97	4.47 ± 2.35	2.596^b	0.009^b
HAD-D	5.84 ± 2.75	3.95 ± 2.59	2.976^b	0.003^b
PDQ-39	43.37 ± 23.05	24.68 ± 11.19	3.600^b	0.001^b

HY stage: Hoehn and Yahr stage; UPDRS-III: Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale motor score; HAD-D: the depression scores of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; HAD-A: the anxiety scores of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; PDQ-39: the Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire. ^aChi-square test. ^bIndependent-samples t-test. .