Table 3.

Comparison of serum nesfatin-1, leptin, orexin-A and total ghrelin levels of the patient group after treatment and control group

Group	After treatment (N=32)	Control (N=32)	p	Cohen’s d	Glass’s delta
Nesfatin-1 (mmol/L)	5.33±5.09	16.12±6.37	<0.001	1.87†	2.11
Leptin (ng/mL)	10.27±13.19	49.21±29.32	<0.001	1.71	2.95*
Orexin-A (ng/L)	442.81±393.91	1,180.64±441.42	<0.001	1.76†	1.87
Ghrelin (pg/mL)	425.08±558.01	6,991.25±6,197.72	<0.001	1.49	11.76*

Values are presented as mean±standard deviation (SD). Student’s t-test was used for statistical analysis.

^*this value can be taken into account as the SDs are not similar;

^†this value can be taken into account as the SDs are similar