Table 1. Clinical characteristics of the Huntington's disease (HD) patients and the controls.

	Controls (n = 18)	HD patients (n = 9)
Gender (male/female)	7/11	5/4
Age (years)	45.8±3.0 (26–64)#	43.4±3.4 (25–57)
Age at symptom onset (years)		38.9±4.0 (15–53)
Body mass index	23.4±0.8	21.0±1.1*
Disease duration (years)		4.9±1.0 (2–10)
Expanded CAG repeat No		46.1±2.3 (41–62)
UHDRS
Motor score		32.2±7.4 (9–69)
Independence scale		78.9±6.6 (40–100)
Functional capacity		9.2±1.2 (3–13)

Values are expressed as means ± SE (range; minimum–maximum).

UHDRS: The Unified Huntington's Disease Rating Scale. Scale ranges (normal to most severe) include motor score (0 to 124), independence score (100 to 10), and functional capacity (13 to 0).

#Three different groups from controls (9 in each group) were compared with 9 HD patients for prothrombin/Alb, Apo A-IV/Alb, and haptoglobin, respectively (The ages of the 3 groups were 41.7±4.3, 45.7±4.7, and 41.1±4.1).

*P = 0.09.