Clinical data of the study subgroups
| Age (y) | Sex | Disease duration (y) | BoNT/A duration (y) | Baseline | First follow up | Second follow up | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tsui scale | BIM scale | Tsui scale | BIM scale | Tsui scale | BIM scale | ||||||||||||||
| Cranial dystonia (n=25): | |||||||||||||||||||
| Blepharospasm (n=20) | 68.7 (11.4)1-150 | 4 M / 16 F | 6.8 (5.1) | 3.6 (2.0) | — | 7.4 (2.6)1-160 | — | 4.7 (1.9)1-160 1-151 | — | 6.1 (2.6)1-160 | |||||||||
| Meige syndrome (n=5) | 61.4 (10.8) | 2 M / 3 F | 10.6 (8.8) | 3.9 (1.9) | — | 12.6 (2.1)1-160 | — | 9.4 (2.1)1-160 1-164 | — | 10.8 (2.3)1-160 | |||||||||
| Cervical dystonia (n=25) | 51.2 (14.0)1-150 | 9 M / 16 F | 8.5 (7.4) | 3.7 (2.1) | 7.9 (2.1)1-151 | — | 5.3 (1.3)1-151 | — | 7.3 (1.9) | — | |||||||||
Results (excepting sex) are means (SD).
↵1-150 p<0.05 for difference blepharospasm versus cervical dystonia (ANOVA).
↵1-160 p<0.01 for difference blepharospasm versus Meige syndrome (unpairedt test).
↵1-151 p<0.05;
↵1-164 p<0.01 for difference of first follow up assessment compared with baseline (pairedt test).