Determinants of quality of life in Parkinson's disease: a perspective of novel clinical subtypes.

The new novel subtyping classification is feasible for Chinese PD patients. Although depression was the most crucial determinant for QoL in PD-MMP, PD-IM and PD-DM patients, the other contributors of QoL in the three subtypes were heterogeneous. These findings may prompt clinicians to target specific factors for improving QoL depending on PD subtypes.