Table 2.

Clinical details of oral lichen planus patients and healthy controls

	OLP		Control		P value
	n	Result	n	Result
Total number	80		51
Gender, n (%)					0.381
Male	36	45	19	37.25
Female	44	55	32	62.75
Age, median (IQR) years	80	43 (35.25 – 55)	51	42 (33 – 51)	0.18
Clinical type, n (%)
Red-form	41	51.25
White-form	31	38.75
Not recorded	8	10
Duration, median (IQR) months	66	4.5 (2 – 6.25)
CRP, n (%)
≥ 3.48 mg/L	6	7.5
< 3.48 mg/L	74	92.5
BMI, mean (± SD) kg/m2	64	23.45 ± 3.29

A chi-squared test was applied for Gender variable; a Mann–Whitney test was employed for Age variable between two groups

BMI, body mass index; CRP, C-reactive protein; IQR, interquartile range; OLP, oral lichen planus; SD, standard deviation