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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 23.
Published in final edited form as: Muscle Nerve. 2011 May 23;44(1):20–24. doi: 10.1002/mus.22114

Table 2.

Change over time in BMI and cholesterol levels.

Baseline* (N = 188) Month Invalid expression
xmlXPathEval: evaluation failed time (in months)
P-value

BMI 26.5 (4.34) 26.63 (4.9) 25.74 (4.29) −0.073 0.0006*
FVC 88.13 (17.81) 77.83 (19.85) 72.24 (22.41) −2.31 8.7E-31*
ALSFRS-R 42.63 (6.27) 38.98 (7.46) 36.76 (8.24) −0.93 1.1E-36*
Total cholesterol 230.24 (43.49) 226.48 (46.04) 228.13 (49.60) −0.32 0.38
LDL 127.67 (31.72) 123.88 (34.13) 125.48 (35.47) −0.30 0.28
HDL 52.06 (12.19) 49.81 (11.2) 50.10 (12.17) −0.22 0.0055*
LDL/HDL ratio 2.42 (0.92) 2.60 (0.86) 2.64 (0.93) 0.0057 0.32