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. 2019 Sep 10;20:704. doi: 10.1186/s12864-019-6039-9

Table 1.

Characteristics of study participants, by sex

Males (N = 189) Females (N = 211)
N % N % P value*
Age 0.0099*
 <35 36 19.0 50 23.7
 ≥35-<45 61 32.3 53 25.1
 ≥45-<55 67 35.4 57 27.0
 ≥55 25 13.2 51 24.2
BMI 0.2527*
 <18.5 65 34.4 87 41.2
 ≥18.5-<24.5 99 52.4 106 50.2
 ≥24.5 25 13.2 18 8.5
Smoking < 0.0001*
 Never 7 3.7 102 48.3
 Ever 182 96.3 109 51.7
Urinary Total Arsenic Concentration (μg/g) 0.0004*
 <15 62 32.8 36 17.1
 ≥15 - < 37.5 48 25.4 54 25.6
 ≥37.5 - < 104.2 46 24.3 54 25.6
 ≥104.2 33 17.5 67 31.8
mean range mean range P value*
Average Blood Cell Percentages (estimated by MethylSpectrum)
 CD8T 0.22 0.07–0.38 0.2 0.05–0.42 0.0437*
 CD4T 0.07 0–0.25 0.05 0–0.23 0.0016*
 NK 0.02 0–0.09 0.03 0–0.09 < 0.0001*
 Bcell 0.08 0.03–0.20 0.08 0.02–0.15 0.8230*
 Mono 0.07 0–0.14 0.08 0–0.15 0.0046*
 Gran 0.48 0.34–0.63 0.49 0.31–0.70 0.0909*

Abreviations: N Number, % Percent

*Chi-squared test used for categorical variable and t-test used for continuous variables