Table 1.
Group characteristics of study participants. Values are whole numbers or represented as mean ± SD (standard deviation).
| Male | Female | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Controls | Patients | Controls | Patients | |||||
| Mean | SD ± | Mean | SD ± | Mean | SD ± | Mean | SD ± | |
| Age (years) | 46.06 | 14.44 | 51.67 | 9.38 | 53.32 | 8.72 | 55.14 | 10.11 |
| Body mass index | 25.02 | 3.38 | 26.63 | 3.75 | 24.20 | 3.96 | 27.02 | 5.26 |
| SF-36 physical sum scale | 55.11 | 3.57 | 30.09 | 7.75 | 53.86 | 5.95 | 28.62 | 7.83 |
| SF-36 psychological sum scale | 50.40 | 8.05 | 33.97 | 15.63 | 53.32 | 6.57 | 39.01 | 12.05 |
| VAS 0 bis 10 | 1.17 | 2.27 | 7.12 | 1.50 | 1.82 | 2.62 | 7.00 | 1.55 |