Improved nutritional status is related to improved quality of life in Parkinson’s disease

BMC Neurology

Table 4 Predictors of quality of life (PDQ-39 score) over the 12-week intervention period

	Estimate	Standard error	Estimated marginal means	pvalue
Intercept	48.02	14.01	n/a	.003
Gender (male)	-0.70	7.27	37.94 (male)	.316
Gender (male)	-0.70	7.27	38.64 (female)	.316
PD duration (years)	-0.80	0.69	n/a	.265
H&Y category (less severe)	-30.42	10.88	23.08 (less severe)	.014
H&Y category (less severe)	-30.42	10.88	53.50 (severe)	.014
ln PG-SGA	5.37	2.67	n/a	.051
Group (SC)	7.51	7.27	40.38 (SC)	.316
Group (SC)	7.51	7.27	36.20 (INT)	.316
Time (BL)	4.33	2.38	39.47 (BL)	.079
Time (BL)	4.33	2.38	37.85 (wk 6)	.079
Time (wk 6)	2.87	2.50	37.85 (wk 6)	.261
Time (wk 6)	2.87	2.50	37.56 (wk 12)	.261

Abbreviations: BL baseline, H&Y Hoehn & Yahr, PD Parkinson’s disease, PDQ-39 Parkinson’s disease questionnaire-39, PG-SGA Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment, SC Standard Care.
AIC = 340.43; Estimated Marginal Means evaluated at ln PG-SGA 1.46 and PD duration 8.11 years.

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