Table 1.

Characteristics of patients and healthy controls^*

	Patients	Controls	p-Value
Age (years)	22.91±2.99	22.91±3.21	1.000
Height (cm)	179.27±6.55	178.00±5.77	0.498
Weight (kg)	76.91±7.53	77.86±5.06	0.624
Alcohol consumption (doses/week)	2 (0–6)	2 (0–6)	1.000
Calcium intake (mg/day)	870 (0–1820)	1–090 (0-1–660)	0.284
Smoking (pack/week)	0.50 (0–14)	0.75 (0–14)	0.724

^*Data were expressed as means±standard deviation for normally distributed quantitative variables and as medians and range for non-normally distributed quantitative variables