. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jan 17.

Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Lett. 2007 Nov 6;430(3):264–268. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.11.001

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of participants with (HCV+) and without (HCV−) chronic hepatitis C viral infection

Group	Sex	Age¹	BMI¹	Tobacco use
HCV + (n = 16)	Males (n = 15) Females (n = 1)	53.25 ± 1.359	27.38 ± 1.002	11/16 currently using tobacco products
HCV − (n = 7)	Males (n = 5) Females (n = 2)	58.86 ± 2.415	36.60 ± 2.845	0/7 currently using tobacco products

T-tests were used to compare age and BMI between the two groups. Participants without HCV did not report any current tobacco use, as opposed to 7 people with HCV; however, participants without HCV were significantly older (t = 2.162, p = 0.042) and had a significantly greater BMI (t = 3.83, p = 0.001) than individuals with HCV.