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. 2009 Mar 6;6(2):77–84. doi: 10.7150/ijms.6.77

Table 5.

Participant characteristics at study entry

	Participants with BAD	Participants without BAD	P values (t-test)
Number of participants	539	268	NS*
Males (number, %)	238 (44.2%)	124 (46.3%)	NS*
Age all (mean+/-standard deviation, years) Men Woman	56.5 (+/-15.0) 54.5 (+/-15.5) 58.0 (+/-14.4)	48.3 (+/-15.9) 48.9 (+/-16.0) 47.8 (+/-15.9)	< 0.01 < 0.01 < 0.01
BMI all (mean +/- standard deviation) Men Woman	26.3 +/-4.3 26.5 +/-3.4 26.1 +/-4.9	24.3 +/-4,6 25.2 +/-4.1 23.5 +/-4.9	< 0.01 < 0.01 < 0.01

* = Fisher's exact test