Table 2.
Demographic and clinical data of patients with and without laparoscopically diagnosed cirrhosis
|
Laparoscopy |
P | ||
| Patients with signs of Cirrhosis (n = 21) | Patients without signs of Cirrhosis (n = 51) | ||
| Age (years) | 56.36 ± 9.42 | 41.7 ± 11.2 | < 0.02a |
| Duration of disease | 23.2 ± 8.3 | 10.4 ± 5.68 | < 0.02a |
| (years) (n = 44) | |||
| Sex ratio (m/f) | 10/11 | 27/24 | ns |
a
Student’s t-test (unpaired); ns = not significant, years were showed as mean ± standard deviation. Duration of disease could be evaluated in 44 cases by patients’ history.