Table 1.

General characteristics of the samples included in the discovery cohort (cohort A)

	Control patients	Prostate cancer patients	p value
n	18	19
Age	59.61 ± 7.29	67 ± 8.01	0.90
Body mass index (BMI)	27.73 ± 3.72	28.76 ± 3.85	0.41
PSA levels (ng/mL)	0.7 ± 0.41	5.51 ± 2.11	<0.0001

Control patients represent healthy volunteers who donated blood samples. Data are represented as mean ± SD.