Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of the study patients

	Control	MFS	P‐value
Total patients	11	10	—
Age (y), mean ± SEM	35.00 ± 4.072	30.40 ± 2.613	0.3644
Male, n (%)	9 (81.8%)	8 (80.0%)	—
Height (cm), mean ± SEM	165.2 ± 3.468	178.8 ± 2.272	0.0081
Weight (kg), mean ± SEM	58.33 ± 4.828	63.33 ± 4.008	0.4440
BMI (kg/m2), mean ± SEM	21.20 ± 1.205	19.87 ± 1.427	0.4950
BSA (m2), mean ± SEM	1.601 ± 0.081	1.749 ± 0.051	0.1540

BMI, body mass index; BSA, body surface area; MFS, Marfan syndrome.

BSA = 0.0061 * height (cm) + 0.0128 * weight (kg) − 0.1529.