Table 1.
The baseline characteristics of subjects
| Subjects’ characteristics | Control |
Patient |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-smoker | Smoker | Smoker | Non-smoker | |
| Number (men) | 31 | 30 | 59 | 4 |
| Age (year) | 58.87 ± 7.19 | 58.65 ± 7.82 | 60.13 ± 9.32 | 55.00 ± 6.37 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 24.58 ± 2.93 | 24.10 ± 2.93 | 23.82 ± 4.28 | 26.50 ± 1.73 |
| FBS (mg/dl) | 81.35 ± 9.98 | 82.16 ± 9.45 | 82.32 ± 10.44 | 81.00 ± 9.59 |
| TG (mg/dl) | 95.83 ± 7.91 | 94.30 ± 8.94 | 95.86 ± 8.97 | 93.75 ± 7.36 |
| LDL-C (mg/dl) | 79.19 ± 7.73 | 79.26 ± 9.31 | 80.13 ± 11.27 | 85.25 ± 9.63 |
Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation (SD).
BMI: Body mass index; FBS: Fasting blood sugar; TG: Triglyceride; LDL-C: Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol
Number of patients with a variety of pulmonary malignancies (smoker patients): adenocarcinoma = 12, squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) = 22, small cell carcinoma = 8, and others = 17