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Table 1 Group characteristics

From: Gait in Huntington’s disease and the stride length-cadence relationship

 

HD (n = 17)

PD (n = 20)

HOA (n = 21)

p values between groups

Age, yrs

60.00 (10.5)

68.9 (8.8)

71.7 (4.0)

<0.001

Male, n (%)

9 (53)

16 (80)

8 (38)

-

Height, cm

170.8 (7.2)

171.5 (8.5)

166.6 (6.2)

0.083

Leg length, cm

87.3 (4.7)

89.4 (5.9)

85.6 (3.7)

0.060

BMI

26.9 (7.2)

26.3 (2.4)

24.9 (3.2)

0.362

MMSE

27.4 (2.2)

27.5 (1.9)

29.0 (1.4)

0.011

Disease duration, yrs

7.25 (4.3)

5.6 (5.5)

-

0.430

Disease severity1

25.8 (10.63)

13.6 (6.24)

-

n/a

Disease stage2

2 (IQR 1,3)

2 (IQR 1,3)

-

n/a

  1. Note. Means and SD unless stated otherwise; HD Huntington’s disease, PD Parkinson’s disease, HOA healthy older adults; BMI body mass index, MMSE Mini Mental State Examination, IQR inter quartile range; Disease severity, 1Unified Huntington’s Disease Rating Scale total motor score for HD group and Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale total motor score part III for the PD group; Disease stage, 2Stage of disease based on Total Functional Capacity scores for HD group, Hoehn & Yahr for PD group; n/a, not applicable.