Table 1.

General demographic informations and parameters of patients and control groups.

Parameters	Meningioma cases (n = 44)	Glioma (n = 56)	Controls (n = 122)
Age (years) (mean ± SD)	50.26 ± 12.68	44.75 ± 15.63	47.22 ± 10.63
Gender n (%)
Male	18 (40.9%)	32 (57.1%)	51 (41.8%)
Female	26 (59.1%)	24 (42.9%)	71 (58.2%)
Histological characteristic of tumors
Astrocytoma n (%)		11 (19.6%)
Glioblastoma multiforme n (%)		22 (39.3%)
Oligodendroglioma n (%)		8 (14.3%)
Oligoastrocytomas n (%)		6 (10.7%)
*Others n (%)		9 (16.1%)

Values as average ± standard deviation. *Ependymoma, hemangioblastoma, paraganglioma, and so forth.