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Box-and-whiskers plot for serum biochemical markers. The top and bottom of each box are the 25th and 75th centiles. The line through the box is the median and the error bars are the maximum and minimum. The horizontal bar represents the significance between the designated groups. * P ≤ 0.05 and ** P ≤ 0.01.
