Table 4.

The average value of cholesterol in female vs male in both groups

COPD group	Gender	Descriptive statistics-cholesterol			p-value
		mean ± SD	min - max	median (IQR)
Severe	Female n=28	5.29 ± 0.9	3.7 – 6.8	5.35 (4.6 – 5.8)	*p = 0.043
	Male n=36	5.85 ± 1.2	4.3 – 8.7	5.65 (4.9 – 6.6)
Very Severe	Female n=6	5.27 ± 0.8	4.6 – 6.3	4.95 (4.6 – 6.3)	**p = 0.13
	Male n=30	6.34 ± 1.6	4.3 – 9.6	5.90 (5.1 – 7.0)

^*p (Student-s t-test);

^**p(Mann-Whitney U test).