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Table 1. General characteristics of leprosy patients and controls.

Variables	Patients n = 412	Controls n = 967
Age^a	43.3 ± 18.14	29.8 ± 9.94
Gender^b
Male	284 (68.9%)	526 (54.4%)
Female	128 (31.1%)	441 (45.6%)
WHO classification
PB	133	-
MB	279	-

WHO, World Health Organization. Paucibacillary (PB); Multibacillary (MB)

Student’s t-test for age between patients and control subjects P < 0.0001; Chi-squared test for gender P < 0.0001; Data shown as mean ± standard deviation.

^aStudent’s t-test

^bChi-squared test