Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of the whole study population.

Characteristics	Total	Group A	Group B	p-value
	(N = 48)	(n = 25)	(n = 23)
Age	48.40 ± 17.14	49.04 ± 17.82	47.70 ± 16.74	0.789
Sex (male)	29 (60.4%)	15 (60%)	14 (60.9%)	>0.99
DM	9 (18.8%)	6 (24%)	3 (13%)	0.466
SBP	123.12 ± 17.03	123.20 ± 14.92	123.04 ± 19.41	0.545
DBP	74.79 ± 9.22	74.80 ± 8.23	74.78 ± 10.39	0.861
eGFR	81.84 ± 41.66	78.09 ± 42.81	85.92 ± 40.93	0.726
CV/MACD	0.37 ± 0.34	0.35 ± 0.33	0.40 ± 0.36	0.243

DM: diabetes mellitus, SBP: systolic blood pressure, DBP: diastolic blood pressure.