Table 1.

Background of the UC patients and healthy controls

	UC patients	controls	p value
Patients number	13	10
Female/male	5/8	3/7
Age (y)	31.8 ± 11.7	41.2 ± 18.8	0.155
Height (cm)	168.4 ± 6.6	165.5 ± 8.3	0.360
Body weight (kg)	53.5 ± 7.6	64.5 ± 11.4	0.009
BMI (kg/mm2)	18.8 ± 2.4	23.5 ± 2.3	<0.001

BMI, body mass index.