2.2. Participants
Parkinson’s disease
RECRUITMENT
We recruited participants with an advertisement that was publicly posted at several Municipal Activity Centers for Older People in Valencia (Spain). The inclusion criteria were as follows: (i) women aged ≥ 65 years; (ii) able to climb 10 stairs without pause and walk 100 m without a walker; (iii) score in the mini-mental state examination (MMSE) > 23 points [A total of 160 Caucasian women attended the recruitment calls, of which 51 were discarded. Of these 51 excluded women, 19 refused to participate upon receiving a detailed description of the commitments of the study, and 32 did not meet the inclusion criteria (Parkinson’s disease, 