Table 1:

Patient characteristics in the 2 correlational analyses

Characteristics	Value or No. of Patients (%)
	MTRasym(3.5ppm) vs Ki-67			MTRasym(3.5ppm) vs MR Spectroscopy
	Low-Grade Glioma (n = 28)	High-Grade Glioma (n = 14)	P Value	Low-Grade Glioma (n = 23)	High-Grade Glioma (n = 13)	P Value
Age, ya	44.00 ± 2.81	44.64 ± 3.70	.89	42.96 ± 3.04	43.31 ± 3.73	.94
Sex, no. (%)			.82			.97
Male	19 (68)	9 (64)		14 (61)	8 (57)
Female	9 (32)	5 (36)		9 (39)	5 (43)
Tumor grade, no. (%)b
II	28 (100)	0		23 (100)	0
III	0	6 (43)		0	6 (46)
IV	0	8 (57)		0	7 (54)

^aMean ± standard deviation.

^bConfirmed on histopathologic examination.