Muscle activation strategies of people with early-stage Parkinson’s during walking

Table 1 The demographic details in mean (± SD) of three group—PD, HOA, HYA participants

	PD	HOA	HYA	p-value
Demographic variables				PD and HOA
Age (Years)	71.91 ± 8.64	67.25 ± 3.77	27.91 ± 2.43	0.09
Gender (male/female)	17/7	17/7	18/6	1
Height (cm)	169.26 ± 8.89	166.54 ± 8.20	161.33 ± 4.26	0.13
Weight (kg)	81.25 ± 15.86	73.58 ± 12.46	60.29 ± 8.07	0.09
Body mass index (BMI) (kg/m²)	28.47 ± 5.85	26.64 ± 5.06	23.16 ± 3.06	0.25

Differences in age, height, weight and BMI were compared across the PD and HOA groups using Mann–Whitney U tests. Gender difference between PD and HOA was performed using chi-squared test

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