Table 1.

Clinical and demographic features of subjects

Characteristic	Control	Cirrhosis
No.	13	13
Sex (males/females)	7/6	7/6
Age, yr	51.2 ± 12.1	54.0 ± 10.3
BMI, kg/m2	29.3 ± 6.5	29.7 ± 4
Bilirubin, mg/dl	0.5 ± 0.2	11.0 ± 17.8***
Alanine amino transferase, IU/dl	28.5 ± 20.5	75.6 ± 11.9***
Aspartate aminotransferase, IU/dl	35.6 ± 21.9	134.0 ± 240.1***
Serum creatinine, mg/dl	1.0 ± 0.3	1.4 ± 0.4*
Blood urea nitrogen, mg/dl	13.5 ± 4.4	24.8 ± 19.4*
International normalized ratio	1.2 ± 0.5	1.6 ± 0.5**
Serum albumin, g/dl	3.9 ± 0.6	3.4 ± 0.9*

Values are means ± SE. BMI, body mass index.

^*P < 0.05;

^**P < 0.01;

^***P < 0.001, cirrhosis vs. controls.