Table 1.

Demographic and occupational characteristics of newspaper couriers and healthy individuals

	Newspaper couriers (n=35)		Healthy individuals (n=35)		t	p
	n	%	n	%
Age (X±SS)	36.4±3.7		34.3±6.6		1.629	0.108
Marital status						0.259a
Single	2	5.7	6	17.1
Married	33	94.3	29	82.9
Work duration (years) (X±SS)	6.5±5.4		7.5±6.5		−0.654	0.515
Daily working hours (X±SD)	9.6±3.6		9.8± 1.1		−0.177	0.860

X±SD: mean±standard deviation; t: Student’s t-test; a: Fisher’s exact chi-square test