Table 2.

Characteristics of Helicobacter pylori–infected subjects and healthy controls enrolled in this study.

Characteristics	H. pylori+	Control	P-value
Numbers	52	39
Sex, males/females	35/17	23/16
Age, mean (x ± s)	58.79 ± 1.78	54.21 ± 2.38	0.12
White blood cells (E + 09/L)	6.96 ± 0.26	7.16 ± 0.26	0.61
Granulocytes (E + 09/L)	4.32 ± 0.25	3.92 ± 0.20	0.23
Lymphocyte (E + 09/L)	2.00 ± 0.08	2.55 ± 0.11	***
Monocyte (E + 09/L)	0.44 ± 0.02	0.45 ± 0.02	0.70

^***p < 0.001.