Table 3. The concentrations of the serum total ATX, classical ATX, and novel ATX antigens in males and females.

Diagnosis	total ATX, mg/L	classical ATX, mg/L	novel ATX, mg/L
		(classical ATX / ATX)	(novel ATX / ATX)
Whole subjects
Male	0.979 ± 0.579	0.788 ± 0.486	0.244 ± 0.155
(n = 76)		(0.811 ± 0.119)	(0.246 ± 0.042)
Female	1.493± 0.980*	1.158 ± 0.815*	0.366 ± 0.236*
(n = 98)		(0.776 ± 0.120)	(0.248 ± 0.049)
Healthy subjects
Male	0.658 ± 0.104	0.527 ± 0.094	0.159 ± 0.033
(n = 24)		(0.805 ± 0.110)	(0.241 ± 0.038)
Female	0.883 ± 0.150	0.673 ± 0.155	0.224 ± 0.054
(n = 33)		(0.766 ± 0.132)	(0.253 ± 0.042)
CLD
Male	1.365 ± 0.767 †	1.129 ± 0.645 †	0.344 ± 0.201 †
(n = 28)		(0.828 ± 0.072)	(0.249 ± 0.033)
Female	1.463 ± 0.667 ‡ ,	1.182 ± 0.582 ‡	0.410 ± 0.203 ‡
(n = 17)		(0.803 ± 0.114)	(0.275 ± 0.049)
FL
Male	0.950 ± 0.273 †	0.703 ± 0.198 †	0.237 ± 0.092 †
(n = 10)		(0.760 ± 0.145)	(0.246 ± 0.047)
Female	1.280 ± 0.472 ‡	0.973 ± 0.364 ‡	0.331 ± 0.110 ‡
(n = 15)		(0.762 ± 0.093)	(0.263 ± 0.055)
DM
Male	0.778 ± 0.289	0.616 ± 0.206	0.196 ± 0.096
(n = 14)		(0.822 ± 0.180)	(0.247 ± 0.060)
Female	0.904 ± 0.274	0.772 ± 0.212	0.202 ± 0.084
(n = 8)		(0.862 ± 0.041)	(0.216 ± 0.056)
Normal pregnancy	2.637 ± 1.178 ‡	2.014 ± 1.086 ‡	0.599 ± 0.300 ‡
(n = 25)		(0.752 ± 0.132)	(0.224 ± 0.036)

CLD, chronic liver diseases; FL, follicular lymphoma; DM, diabetes mellitus.

* p < 0.01 vs Whole male subjects.

^† p < 0.01 vs Healthy male subjects.

^‡ p < 0.01 vs Healthy female subjects.