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Table 1 General characteristics of the participants

From: Does choline have an effect on Transient Global Amnesia (TGA)?

 

Controls (n = 520)

Cases (n = 258)

P*

Age (years)

49.66 ± 9.37

49.86 ± 8.82

0.79

Females n (%)

346 (66.5%)

186 (72.1%)

0.15

Has job n (%)

72 (13.8%)

151 (58.5%)

 < 0.01

Married n (%)

261 (50.2%)

128 (49.8%)

0.23

Drinking alcohol n (%)

13 (2.5%)

30 (11.6%)

0.03

Smoking n (%)

11 (2.1%)

21 (8.1%)

0.45

Physical activity as MET (kcal/kg*h)

39.18 ± 9.8

38.04 ± 8.00

0.13

Height (cm)

161.91 ± 9.7

159.28 ± 9.07

 < 0.01

Weight (Kg)

74.53 ± 14.6

72.21 ± 12.3

0.04

BMI (kg/m2)

28.44 ± 5.01

28.49 ± 4.64

0.90

  1. MET metabolic equivalent of task
  2. *Comparing continuous and categorical variables in different outcome groups was performed using independent samples t-test and Chi-squared test, respectively