Discriminative pattern of reduced cerebral blood flow in Parkinson’s disease and Parkinsonism-Plus syndrome: an ASL-MRI study

Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the participants

Characteristics	PD (n = 20)	PPS (n = 16)	Control (n = 17)	p-Value
Age, years	56.35 ± 7.56	59.62 ± 6.89	54.17 ± 6.58	0.094^a
Gender, male/female	13/7	7/9	6/11	0.174^b
Disease duration years	6.40 ± 4.04	3.50 ± 2.81	NA	0.020^c
HAMA scale	16.50 ± 5.92	13.36 ± 7.85	NA	0.145^c
HAMD scale	18.45 ± 6.91	16.09 ± 9.30	NA	0.546^c
MMSE scale	26.05 ± 3.26	19.25 ± 8.87	NA	0.001^c
MoCA scale	20.55 ± 4.60	13.41 ± 7.69	NA	0.231^c

Abbreviations:^a One-way ANOVA; ^b Chi-square (χ²) test; ^c Two-sample t-test; PD, Parkinson’s disease; PPS, Parkinsonism-Plus syndrome; HAMA, Hamilton Anxiety Scale; HAMD, Hamilton Depression Scale; MMSE, Mini-Mental State Examination; MoCA, Montreal Cognitive Assessment

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