Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the study population.

From: Targeted metabolomics reveals aberrant profiles of serum bile acids in patients with schizophrenia

Variables

Discovery Set

Validation Set

SZ (N = 59)

HC (N = 60)

p-value

SZ (N = 49)

HC (N = 48)

p-value

Age, y, mean (SD)a

37.48 (11.80)

36.80 (9.74)

0.732

36.13 (12.68)

28.29 (8.60)

<0.001

Sex (M/F)b

23/36

25/35

0.765

20/29

0/48

<0.001

Height, cm, mean (SD)a

163.49 (6.95)

165.00 (6.88)

0.241

158.20 (5.82)

160.08 (4.59)

0.09

Weight, kg, mean (SD)a

58.62 (7.76)

60.78 (8.72)

0.162

53.44 (8.20)

53.02 (6.14)

0.783

BMI, kg m−2, mean (SD)a

21.93 (2.46)

22.30 (2.75)

0.448

21.17 (2.53)

20.67 (2.10)

0.315

Smokerc, No. (%)b

15 (25.4)

12 (20)

0.480

0 (0)

6 (12.5)

0.011

CGI-S, median (IQR)

6 (0)

NA

NA

6 (1)

NA

NA

  1. M male, F female, BMI body mass index, CGI-S the clinical global impression-severity of illness scale, SD standard deviation, IQR interquartile range, NA not applicable.
  2. aThe p-values were calculated by two-tailed Student’s t-test.
  3. bThe p-values were calculated by the chi-square test.
  4. cSmoker represents the number of subjects with a habit of smoking.
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