Table 1.

Listing Of Average Age By Gender And By Center Of Patients Included In The Meta-Analysis. SD = standard deviation, n = number of patients in each group.

			Sex		Total
			female	male
			Age (years)	Age (years)
Center	Germany (Center S)	Mean	65.32	60.46	62.24
		SD	10.58	10.73	10.92
		n	276	475	751
		%	38.6	61.4	100.0
	Asia (Overall)	Mean	65.14	59.58	61.26
		SD	10.80	13.43	12.92
		n	57	132	189
		%	32.1	67.9	100.0
	Asia - Center A	Mean	63.4	60.1	61.1
		SD	9.3	13.4	12.4
		n	19.0	46.0	65.0
		%	30.3	69.7	100.0
	Asia - Center B	Mean	59.1	56.5	57.5
		SD	8.6	10.5	9.7
		n	7.0	12.0	19.0
		%	37.9	62.1	100.0
	Asia - Center C	Mean	73.3	70.0	71.1
		SD	8.6	9.7	9.4
		n	15.0	29.0	44.0
		%	35.2	64.8	100.0
	Asia - Center E	Mean	62.1	53.2	55.5
		SD	11.6	12.2	12.6
		n	16.0	45.0	61.0
		%	29.4	70.6	100.0
	USA (Center W)	Mean	63.21	60.89	61.86
		SD	12.48	12.05	12.24
		n	57	79	136
		%	42.8	57.2	100.0
Total	Mean		64.98	60.34	62.02
	SD		10.90	11.44	11.46
	n		390	686	1,076
	%		38.0	62.0	100.0