Table 4.

Patients’ t-score in control group and experimental group (mean ± SD)

Score	Experimental group (mean ± SD) (n=10)	Control group (mean ± SD) (n=10)	P-value
t-score	−0.518±0.059	−0.510±0.058	0.594
t-score’	−0.548±0.029	−0.107±0.097	0.0013*

Notes: t-score means a scoring standard representative of patients who did not take olive oil before experiment. t-score’ means a scoring standard representative of patients who did and did not take olive oil for 1 year.

^*Represents after 1 year, in control group, patients’ t-scores considerably decreased compared with experimental group.

Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation.