Clinical characteristics of fatigued Parkinson’s patients and the response to dopaminergic treatment

Table 4 Correlations between fatigue remission rate and clinical characteristics of the patients with fatigue

Variables	Spearman’s rank-order Correlation coefficient	p
Gender	0.119	0.297
Age, y	−0.223	0.049*
Onset age, y	−0.250	0.026*
Duration of disease	0.123	0.282
Education, y	0.010	0.929
LEDD	0.003	0.976
PFS total score	−0.155	0.173
H-Y stage	0.089	0.436
UPDRS total score	0.033	0.772
UPDRS part I	0.053	0.645
UPDRS part II	−0.029	0.798
UPDRS part III	0.074	0.515
UPDRS part IV	0.032	0.781
HAMD	−0.318	0.007*
PDSS	0.120	0.324
MoCA	0.123	0.280

*Significant difference. H-Y stage Hoehn & Yahr staging, LEDD levodopa equivalent daily dosage, UPDRS Unified Parkinson’ Disease Rating Scale, MoCA Montreal Cognitive Assessment, HAMD Hamilton Depression Scale score, PDSS Parkinson’s Disease Sleep Scale

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