Table 1.
Baseline subject characteristics
| Healthy volunteers (n = 12) | Patients with functional dyspepsia (n = 22) | P value | |
| Age (yr) | 24 (23-34) | 46 (23-59) | 0.0001 |
| Height (cm) | 162 (154-167) | 160 (150-175) | 0.4351 |
| Weight (kg) | 52.8 (44-58) | 55 (45-70) | 0.1701 |
| Body mass index (kg/m2) | 20.2 (18.1-22.9) | 21.2 (17.6-27.3) | 0.1351 |
| Growth hormone (ng/mL) | 0.8 (0.1-3.3) | 0.4 (0.01-14.7) | 0.3391 |
| Insulin (μIU/mL) | 8.3 (2.3-14.6) | 8.3 (4.0-14.4) | 0.6391 |
| Fasting blood sugar (mg/dL) | 82 (72-97) | 88.5 (70-107) | 0.0261 |
| Helicobacter pylori infection rate (%) | 66.7 (8/12) | 36.4 (8/22) | 0.1512 |
1
Analysis by Mann-Whitney U test;
2
Analysis by Fisher’s exact test.