Patients’ characteristics and the presence of psychosis
Total sample | Psychosis | p Value | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes | No | ||||||
Patients (n) | 100 | 30 | 70 | ||||
Age (y): | |||||||
Mean | 71 | 71.8 | 71 | NS | |||
SD | 6.8 | 4.5 | 7.5 | ||||
Age at onset: | |||||||
Mean | 64 | 61.6 | 64.7 | NS | |||
SD | 8.9 | 8.2 | 9.1 | ||||
Duration of illness (y): | |||||||
Mean | 7 | 10 | 6.3 | <0.02 | |||
SD | 5.7 | 7.1 | 4.6 | ||||
Dose of levodopa (mg/day): | |||||||
Mean | 455 | 506 | 433 | NS | |||
SD | 353 | 320 | 367 | ||||
Dose of selegeline (mg/day): | |||||||
Mean | 3.8 | 2.8 | 4.1 | NS | |||
SD | 5.7 | 4.3 | 6.1 | ||||
Side of onset total (n=100): | |||||||
Right | 43 | 16 | 27 | NS | |||
Left | 45 | 9 | 36 | ||||
Side of onset cognitively unimpaired (n=62): | |||||||
Right | 25 | 7 | 18 | <0.03 | |||
Left | 32 | 2 | 30 | ||||
EPS at onset (n=95): | |||||||
Tremor | 55 | 13 | 42 | NS | |||
Rigidity | 19 | 4 | 15 | ||||
Akinesia | 21 | 10 | 11 |