Table 3.

Epidemiological findings of study population and evaluation of the homogeneity of the study groups.

	Case	Control	p (ANOVA test)
N	23	10
Age (years)	68.5 ± 12.5a	65.1 ± 9.4a	ns
Height (m)	1.62 ± 0.09a	1.67 ± 0.10a	ns
Weight (kg)	75.8 ± 17.3a	77 ± 11.2a	ns
BMI (kg/m2)	28.9 ± 5.3a	27.8 ± 4.2a	ns

^aData expressed as mean ± standard deviation. Abbreviation: BMI: body mass index.