Open AccessHealth-Related Quality of Life May Predict Disease Staging in 10 Years in Parkinson Disease With Hoehn-Yahr Stage III
Author(s) -
Hiroshi Kataoka,
Kazuma Sugie
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
neurology. clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.674
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 2163-0933
pISSN - 2163-0402
DOI - 10.1212/cpj.0000000000000924
Subject(s) - logistic regression , parkinson's disease , quality of life (healthcare) , stage (stratigraphy) , medicine , disease , physical therapy , paleontology , nursing , biology
Ten years ago, we examined 30 patients with Hoehn-Yahr stage III Parkinson disease (PD) to determine predictors related to falling, including walking speed, step number, and step time by using the originally designed narrowed paths. We verified the increased number of steps as greater risk for an upgrade of Hoehn-Yahr stage in a 6-year period. We further prospectively studied the same patients whether the step number on a sudden narrow path persists as a predictor of the severity of PD.