Parkinson and the Males Body Composition (PD&MBC)

University of Oviedo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neurodegenerative Disease

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06723210

ETICA-ULE-081-2024

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main aim of the present study was to ascertain the type of relationship (dependency or independency) among some of the cardinal motor symptoms of the Parkinson´s disease (PD) and the body composition (BC) variables of a group of the male PD´s patients, using the bioelectrical impedance analysis.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 50 to 69 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

(I) Males with diagnosis of idiopathic PD and rated 1-3 on the Hoehn and Yahr Scale.

(II) No type of dementia as assessed by the mini-mental state examination. (III) Between 50 and 69 years old (a specific range of ages of the illness´s onset).

(IV) Between one and five years diagnosed with the illness. (V) Able to stand for two min without assistance. (VI) Able to walk teen m without assistance.

Exclusion criteria

(I) Do not meet the eligibility criteria. (II) Suffer a neurological disease other than Parkinson´s disease.

Trial design

15 participants in 1 patient group

Patients

Description:

The patients were assigned to the same group because the study´s design only demands to create one group of patients.