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<jats:sec><jats:title>Introduction</jats:title><jats:p>A range of non-motor features can be evident at the point of diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (PD).</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Objectives</jats:title><jats:p>To identify non-motor features of prodromal PD in participants from the PREDICT-PD study.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods</jats:title><jats:p>Higher-risk (HR) (odds of PD >1:30) and matched lower-risk (LR) participants from PREDICT-PD and PD patients underwent validated clinical assessments, in which the assessor was blinded to risk scores, including MDS-UPDRS I-III, other functional motor tasks, and standardised assessments of cognition, autonomic function, pain and sleep.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>28 LR, 31 HR and 22 PD patients were examined. HR participants were more impaired than LR in all motor tasks, as well as the SCOPA-AUT, PD Sleep scale, HADS and MDS-UPDRS I & II. There were no sig- nificant differences between HR and PD, other than for the MDS-UPDRS part II, part III, the gastrointestinal sub-score of the SCOPA-AUT, and measured orthostatic hypotension. In all domains tested there was a relationship between the log odds of PD risk and dysfunction using linear regression.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion</jats:title><jats:p>This study provides strong evidence that non-motor features are prominent in at-risk indi- viduals, as well as mild motor impairment, and that these symptoms and signs are similar to patients with established PD. Further follow-up will establish which patients develop the cardinal motor signs necessary for a clinical diagnosis of PD.</jats:p></jats:sec>