Prevalence and Factors Associated with Drooling in Parkinson’s Disease: Results from a Longitudinal Prospective Cohort and Comparison with a Control Group

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(a) Mean score on each domain of the PDQ-39 at the baseline in PD patients from the entire cohort with vs. without drooling;  < 0.0001 for all analysis except for “emotional well-being” ( = 0.001), “stigmatization” ( = 0.129), and “pain and discomfort” ( = 0.063). (b) Mean score on each domain of the EUROHIS-QOL8 at the baseline in PD patients from the entire cohort with vs. without drooling; “quality of life,”  = 0.005; “health status,”  = 0.178; “energy,”  = 0.183; “autonomy for ADL,”  = 0.011; “self-esteem,”  = 0.033; “social relationships,”  = 0.032; “economic capacity,” p = 0.020; “habitat,”  = 0.046. EUROHIS-QOL8, EUROHIS-QOL 8-item index; PD, Parkinson’s disease; PDQ-39, 39-item Parkinson’s disease quality of life questionnaire.

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