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Table 3 Mean and standard deviation of the gait measures in the two groups

From: SPARC: a new approach to quantifying gait smoothness in patients with Parkinson’s disease

 

Healthy Controls (HC)

PD ON

PD OFF

Effect Size & p-value

HC vs PD ON

HC vs PD OFF

ON vs OFF

SPARC

Acc

-5.17 ± 0.79

−6.11 ± 0.74

−6.74 ± 0.64

1.25 (<  0.001)

2.29 (0.001)

<  0.001

V

− 5.08 ± 0.74

− 5.22 ± 0.78

− 5.74 ± 0.88

0.17 (0.107)

0.78 (0.001)

<  0.001

AP

−5.57 ± 0.74

−5.80 ± 0.80

− 6.44 ± 0.77

0.30 (0.190)

1.14 (0.001)

<  0.001

ML

− 5.44 ± 0.32

−5.60 ± 0.48

−5.96 ± 0.50

0.35 (0.388)

1.13 (0.005)

<  0.001

Gyr

−4.87 ± 0.55

−5.00 ± 0.52

−5.43 ± 0.53

0.25 (0.156)

1.06 (<  0.001)

<  0.001

Yaw

−5.96 ± 0.81

−5.92 ± 0.85

−6.47 ± 0.82

− 0.05 (0.037)

0.63 (0.002)

<  0.001

Roll

− 5.80 ± 0.73

−5.97 ± 0.60

−6.51 ± 0.70

0.26 (0.229)

1.01 (0.007)

<  0.001

Pitch

−6.28 ± 0.75

−6.55 ± 0.86

− 7.09 ± 0.91

0.32 (0.365)

0.94 (0.002)

<  0.001

Harmonic ratios

V

3.10 ± 0.90

2.75 ± 0.82

2.95 ± 0.85

0.42 (0.998)

0.17 (0.092)

<  0.001

AP

2.08 ± 0.48

2.04 ± 0.74

2.54 ± 0.93

0.06 (0.800)

− 0.55 (0.240)

<  0.001

ML

0.60 ± 0.11

0.56 ± 0.09

0.52 ± 0.08

0.33 (0.002)

0.89 (<  0.001)

<  0.001

Mean Gait Speed

1.18 ± 0.24

1.16 ± 0.20

1.13 ± 0.19

0.05 (0.028)

0.21 (0.008)

0.117

Stride Time

Mean

1.04 ± 0.06

1.09 ± 0.09

1.09 ± 0.09

− 0.62 (0.048)

− 0.53 (0.365)

0.550

Variability

3.43 ± 1.17

4.72 ± 3.05

5.84 ± 4.92

− 0.48 (0.044)

− 0.57 (0.055)

0.826

  1. Note: Significant results are displayed in bold
  2. Analysis was also performed without controlling for weight which did not modify the outcomes