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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the CTRL and Pre-HD groups

From: The effect of impulsivity and inhibitory control deficits in the saccadic behavior of premanifest Huntington’s disease individuals

 

CTRL = 22

Pre-HD = 15

Chi-Square /Mann-Whitney

χ2/ U

p

 

Gender (F:M) 15:7

Gender (F:M) 8:7

0.836

0.361

 

Handedness (R:L) 19:3

Handedness (R:L) 15:0

3.058

0.383

 

Median

IQR

Median

IQR

  

Age (years)

34

12

37

12

161.5

0.914

Education (years)

11.5

2

12

7

155.5

0.766

CAG repeats

–

–

41

2

–

–

Time to HD Onset (years)

–

–

21.1

11

–

–

UHDRS - TMS

–

–

1

3

–

–

UHDRS - OculoTMS

–

–

0

1

–

–

UHDRS-TFC

–

–

13

0

–

–

  1. No significant differences were found between Pre-HD and Controls in any of the Demographic variables
  2. IQR Interquartile Range, CAG repeats CAG repeat expansion confirmed by a genetic test, Time to HD Onset estimated number of years to the formal diagnosis of manifest HD, calculated with the Langbehn’s formula [58], UHDRS Unified Huntington’s Disease Rating Scale [59], TMS Total Motor Score of the UHDRS, OculoTMS a composite score extracted from the sum of the oculomotor items of UHDRS-Motor scale, TFC Total Functional Capacity scale of the UHDRS
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Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

ISSN: 1750-1172