Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of patients and healthy individuals.
| Age | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Mean age | t score | P | ||
| Healthy | 49 | 55.65 ± 8.34 | 0.229 | .796 | |
| Control | 31 | 54.42 ± 10.03 | |||
| Experimental | 32 | 54.56 ± 9.08 | |||
| Sex | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Female | Male | χ2 | P | |
| Healthy | 49 | 29 | 20 | 0.168 | .920 |
| Control | 31 | 19 | 12 | ||
| Experimental | 32 | 18 | 14 | ||