Table 1.

Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of the patient and control groups

	Patient	Control	p
Age (yr)	37.18±9.05	37.65±8.91	0.835
Education level (yr)	11.37±2.88	13.18±4.61	0.064
BMI (kg/m2)	25.04±4.80	25.77±5.71	0.580
Marital status			0.458
Married	25 (78.1)	21 (65.6)
Single	7 (21.9)	9 (28.1)
Widowed	0 (0.0)	1 (3.1)
Divorced	0 (0.0)	1 (3.1)
Income status			0.232
Income less than expenses	13 (40.6)	7 (21.9)
Income equivalent to expense	13 (40.6)	19 (59.4)
Income more than expenses	6 (18.8)	6 (18.8)
Smoking			0.133
Yes	18 (56.3)	12 (37.5)
No	14 (43.7)	20 (62.5)

Values are presented as number (%) or mean±standard deviation. Chi-square test and Student’s t-test were used for statistical analysis. BMI, body mass index