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. 2019 Dec 2;11:172. doi: 10.1186/s13148-019-0754-6

Table 1.

Data summary of the cohorts used in this study

Variable Study participants (n = 52) Liver (n = 62) Liver (obesity) (n = 40)
Men Women p Men Women p Men Women p
(n = 24) (n = 28) (n = 17) (n = 45) (n = 6) (n = 34)
Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
Chronological age 35.0 10.6 32.9 5.7 0.36 55.6 17.3 45.2 10.3 0.01 51.2 10.0 43.6 8.9 0.07
BMI 54.4 9.1 48.9 7.2 0.02 35.9 14.4 43.7 12.3 0.04 54.1 4.7 49.5 6.8 0.12

Data are expressed as mean and standard deviation (SD). Liver and liver (obesity) refer to publicly available data (GSE48325) [27] and a subset of subjects with BMI > 40 kg/m2, respectively. p stands for p values obtained in Student’s t test. BMI body mass index