Table 1.

Patient numbers and age at baseline and follow-up.

Study month	Number of patients		Age in years (mean ± SD)
	M	F	M	F
0	63	31	62.05 ± 12.47	59.77 ± 16.04
1–6	49	28	62.70 ± 12.66	60.35 ± 16.28
7–12	43	23	63.33 ± 12.98	58.77 ± 16.70
13–18	27	14	63.79 ± 13.15	58.82 ± 14.25
19–24	20	11	64.00 ± 13.96	58.29 ± 15.46

Given are the numbers of patients (M, male/F, female) left at the respective time periods of sample collection for glycomic profiling and/or determination of clinical parameters as described in the experimental section.