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Driving safety in Parkinson's disease
T A Zesiewicz1, C R Cimino, A R Malek
1Department of Neurology, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA. tzesiewi@hsc.usf.edu
Neurology
|December 11, 2002
Abstract:
In this study, 39 patients with PD and 25 control subjects without neurologic disease completed testing in a driving simulator. PD patients had more total collisions on the driving simulator than control subjects (t = -3.7, p < 0.01). In PD patients, collisions were associated with Hoehn and Yahr stage (chi(2) = 12.4, p = 0.006) and correlated with Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale score (r = 0.5, p < 0.01).