Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of patients.

	Mesotherapy group	Oral therapy group	p value
Sex	Fa: 29 (93.5%) Mb: 2 (6.5%)	F: 25 (80.6%) M: 6 (19.4%)	0.09
Age, mean ± SDc	56.87 ± 9.14	53.45 ± 8.63	0.66
BMId (kg/m2), mean ± SD	27.61 ± 5.08	28.3 ± 4.66	0.15

^aF, female; ^bM, male; ^cSD, standard deviation; ^dBMI, body mass index.