Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of patients included in the study.
| All n = 233 |
Underweight n = 25 |
Normal n = 95 |
Overweight n = 67 |
Obese n = 45 |
p ANOVA | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | Variance | Mean | Variance | Mean | Variance | Mean | Variance | Mean | Variance | ||
| Age years | 49.0 | 53.0 | 47.0 | 37.0 | 50.0 | 49.0 | 49.0 | 38.0 | 50.0 | 45.0 | 0.469 |
| Ascites severity⁎ | 1.4 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.017 |
| Prothrombin time seconds | 26.0 | 8.8 | 24.7 | 4.5 | 25.6 | 8.8 | 26.2 | 9.3 | 27.2 | 9.2 | 0.700 |
| Bilirubin Mmol/L | 238 | 162 | 234 | 129 | 239 | 151 | 236 | 177 | 242 | 177 | 0.998 |
| Creatinine mmol/L | 91.3 | 70.8 | 63.0 | 41.5 | 89.8 | 68.3 | 83.4 | 49.6 | 112.6 | 96.7 | 0.059 |
| Sodium mmol/L | 130.9 | 8.2 | 123 | 7.6 | 132 | 7.9 | 131 | 8.3 | 132 | 8.1 | 0.002 |
| Urea mmol/L | 8.6 | 13.4 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 6.5 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 9.7 | 15.4 | 22.7 | 0.001 |
| Albumin g/L | 24.2 | 11.3 | 26.0 | 7.1 | 24.8 | 11.4 | 23.9 | 11.6 | 22.6 | 11.9 | 0.665 |
| White cell count x106/L | 12.5 | 13.7 | 13.0 | 7.9 | 12.4 | 7.8 | 11.1 | 5.5 | 14.1 | 26.2 | 0.716 |
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Compared by Fisher's exact test.