Table 2.
Prevalence of bifid nerves and persistent median arteries (PMA) in Latino manual laborers (N =518).
| Bifid either N (%) |
Bifid neither N (%) |
P-value | PMA either N (%) |
PMA neither N (%) |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 78 (15.1) | 440 (84.9) | 33 (6.4) | 485 (93.6) | ||
| Job status | 0.9050 | 0.1936 | ||||
| Poultry workers | 44 (15.2) | 245 (84.8) | 22 (7.6) | 267 (92.4) | ||
| Non-poultry workers | 34 (14.8) | 195 (85.2) | 11 (4.8) | 218 (95.2) | ||
| Spoken language | 0.6879 | 0.6592 | ||||
| Non-indigenous | 62 (14.8) | 343 (85.2) | 25 (6.2) | 380 (93.8) | ||
| Indigenous | 15 (13.8) | 94 (86.2) | 8 (7.3) | 101 (92.7) | ||
| Gender | 0.2549 | 0.7257 | ||||
| Men | 38 (13.4) | 245 (86.6) | 19 (7.3) | 264 (92.7) | ||
| Women | 40 (17.0) | 195 (83.0) | 14 (6.0) | 221 (94.0) | ||
| Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | P-value | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | P-value | |
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| Height (cm) | 157.1 (7.8) | 157.9 (8.5) | 0.4268 | 157.3 (9.9) | 157.8 (8.3) | 0.7405 |
| Weight (kg) | 73.2 (13.7) | 71.7 (13.6) | 0.3679 | 73.0 (13.8) | 71.9 (13.6) | 0.6431 |
| BMI | 29.6 (4.8) | 28.7 (4.8) | 0.1364 | 29.5 (4.6) | 28.8 (4.9) | 0.4711 |
| Age | 35.2 (10.4) | 34.6 (10.4) | 0.6575 | 37.4 (11.7) | 34.5 (10.3) | 0.1244 |