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Disease Duration
(yrs, mean ± SD)
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UPDRS -- Score
(points, mean ± SD)
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SSD Proportion of right answers (95% C.I.)
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Total
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I
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II
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III
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IV
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7.7 ± 4.1
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36.7 ± 19.3
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2.6 ± 1.7
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15.7 ± 7.6
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16.5 ± 6.0
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6.3 ± 5.4
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0.79 (0.75-0.83)*
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- UPDRS, Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (scale maximum 199 points). Subscales in roman numerals: I, Mentation, behavior and mood (subscale maximum 16); II, Activities of daily living (52); III, Motor examination (108); IV, Complications of therapy (23). Higher scores denote increasing disability. SSD, somatosensory discrimination. Comparison with normal volunteers, 0.95 (0.93-0.96, 95% C.I.), unpaired, two-tailed t-test: * p < 0.001. SSD, somatosensory discrimination for object pairs above the critical threshold difference in the major axis of approximately 2 mm
