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. 2013 Aug 23;1(1):13. doi: 10.1186/2049-9256-1-13

Table 1.

Demographic data of the patient and control groups

Study I Study II
Alcoholic patients Controls Wilk’s λ P η.2 Power Alcoholic patients
N = 45 N = 45 N = 73
Age (x ± sd) 40.56 ± 13.82 40.67 ± 13.80 0.95 0.133 0.051 0.322 46.41 ± 6.07
BMI (x ± sd) 23.93 ± 3.42 25.46 ± 4.01 0.92 0.092 0.083 0.391 24.62 ± 3.88
Alcohol units per day (x ± sd) 17.27 ± 8.90 1.00 +- 0.23 <0.001 0.775 1.00 13.90 ± 9.02
0.00
Years of alcohol abuse (x ± sd) 8.97 ± 6.84 9.45 ± 6.41
Concentration of breath alcohol (‰) 0.94 ± 0.98 1.29 ± 1.14
N without any breath alcohol (%) 32.40 30.10
Days of in-patient treatment (x ± sd) 10.82 ± 3.01 10.68 ± 2.58
Related samples Wilcoxon Rank test
Smoker % 94.1 22.2 P = 0.002 90.4
Vegetarian % 0.0 2.2 (n for controls is only 1) 0.0
Fish diet %
Never 14.7 16.7 12.5
≤ 2 times a week 67.6 66.7 80.6
< 2 times a week 17.6 16.7 P = 1.00 6.9