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Objective outcome criteria in trials of anti-parkinsonian therapy in the elderly: sensitivity, specificity and reliability of measures of brady- and hypo-kinesia.

Abstract：

:1. We compare the sensitivity and specificity of chosen outcome criteria in a placebo-controlled, randomised cross-over study of the efficacy of maintenance therapy with the levodopa/carbidopa combination (Sinemet Plus) alone. Patients were characterised by having idiopathic Parkinsonism with no overt fluctuations in control in relation to individual doses of medication. 2. The effect of omission of a morning dose of maintenance therapy on simple timed tests of mobility and manual dexterity, and on distance/time parameters of gait was studied in fourteen patients (aged 64 to 88 years). Measurements made 2, 4 and 6 h after morning active and placebo treatments were standardised by taking the pre-treatment measurement on that day as baseline. 3. In a linear model, which allowed for the structure of the study, neither the total time taken by each patient to get up from a chair, walk an individually set distance, turn, return to and sit in the chair, nor the rate of progress at fastening the same set of buttons, was sensitive to the treatment effect. 4. Three of the gait parameters, free walking speed, mean stride length and mean double support time, were sensitive to the treatment effect. Correction for the speed of each walk, caused some reduction in the sensitivity of stride length to treatment effect, but that of double support time remained. Speed, and double support time or stride length, appeared to be complementary in defining the treatment effect. 5. The linear modelling revealed the complexity of the treatment effect. Although active treatment, by comparison with placebo, increased free walking speed (P = 0.019), the more levodopa found in the plasma following treatment, (P = 0.0005) and the greater the increment in the concentration of its peripheral metabolite, 3-O-methyldopa (P = 0.006), the less the beneficial effect. This model may reflect reduced uptake into the brain and/or an adverse effect of parent drug or a metabolite. 6. The specificity of free walking speed for the treatment effect was good, as was that of mean stride length, after it had been corrected for speed of each walk, and of mean double support time, after correction for speed and incorporation of the change in lying blood pressure accompanying treatment into the model. 7. The measurements of gait parameters were ranked according to reliability.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

journal_name

Br J Clin Pharmacol

journal_title

British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors

Bowes SG,Clark PK,Charlett A,O'Neill CJ,Leeman AL,Weller C,Nicholson PW,Deshmukh AA,Dobbs SM,Dobbs RJ

doi

10.1111/j.1365-2125.1991.tb05533.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-03-01 00:00:00

pages

295-304

issue

eissn

0306-5251

issn

1365-2125

journal_volume

pub_type

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Objective outcome criteria in trials of anti-parkinsonian therapy in the elderly: sensitivity, specificity and reliability of measures of brady- and hypo-kinesia.