Table 1.
Description of studied populations.
| Characteristics | Healthy Controls (n = 30) |
BC Patients (n = 25) | p |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (year) * | 53.5 (7.0–62.0) | 63.0 (53.8–71.0) | 0.01 |
| BMI (kg·m−2) * | 23.8 (22.4–25.6) | 24.0 (21.5–26.4) | 0.85 |
| Menopausal status ** | 20 (66.6) | 22 (88.0) | 0.10 |
| Alcohol consumption | 1 | ||
| <7 glasses/w | 29 (96.6) | 24 (96.0) | |
| >10 to 14/w | 1 (3.3) | 1 (4.0) | |
| smoking | 1 | ||
| 0 | 28 (93.3) | 25 (100) | |
| 1–5/d | 1 (3.3) | 0 | |
| 6–10/d | 1 (3.3) | 0 | |
| >20/d | 0 | 0 | |
| Medication treatment | |||
| Hormone therapy | 4 (13.3) | 7 (28.0) | 0.20 |
* Median (25th–75th) ** Frequency (percentage).