Comparing Balance Performance on Force Platform Measures in Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease and Healthy Adults

Table 2

Demographics for Parkinson’s disease cohort and age-matched healthy cohort.

	PD cohort	Healthy cohort
Number of participants
Age	66.21 ± 7.92	64.75 ± 8.50
Gender
Male
Female
Disease duration (months)	53.90 ± 37.86	N/A
Hoehn and Yahr stage	2.33 ± 0.77
Stage 1		N/A
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
MDS-UPDRS total score	47.98 ± 23.70	N/A
MDS-UPDRS motor score	25.95 14.51	N/A
Number of medications	4.30 ± 3.01	2.31 ± 1.69
Percentage of fallers	24%	0%
Percentage of freezers	24%	N/A
PD subtype
(1) Tremor dominant		N/A
(2) Posture instability and gait difficulty		N/A
(3) Indeterminate		N/A