Table 3. Laboratory findings of the patients with primary biliary cirrhosis.
| both sexes | males | females | p value | ||||||||||
| n | mean | SD | median | n | mean | SD | median | n | mean | SD | median | ||
| Total bilirubin (mg/dL) | 5,387 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 597 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 4,790 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 0.6 | <0.01* |
| Alkaline phosphatase (ALP: IU/L) | 5,655 | 486.8 | 702.4 | 364 | 643 | 537.7 | 595.9 | 406.5 | 5,021 | 480.3 | 714.6 | 359 | <0.01* |
| γ-glutamyl transpeptidase (γ-GTP: IU/L) | 5,638 | 165.1 | 246.4 | 86 | 629 | 292.1 | 345.5 | 178 | 5,009 | 149.1 | 226.0 | 79 | <0.01* |
| Total cholesterol (mg/dL) | 5,458 | 214.0 | 230.0 | 204 | 601 | 204.1 | 77.6 | 197 | 4,857 | 215.3 | 242.3 | 205 | <0.01* |
| Immunoglobulin M (IgM: mg/dL) | 4,450 | 444.6 | 395.2 | 349.5 | 477 | 426.8 | 316.0 | 342 | 3,973 | 446.7 | 403.6 | 350 | <0.01* |
| Antimitochondrial antibody (AMA) positive (%) | 86.6 (4,765/5,502) | 90.9 (552/607) | 86.1 (4,213/4,895) | <0.01† | |||||||||
* : Mann-Whitney tests for males vs. females
† : Chi-squared test for males vs. females
SD: standard deviation