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Table 1 Data summary of the cohorts used in this study

From: Body mass index is associated with epigenetic age acceleration in the visceral adipose tissue of subjects with severe obesity

Variable

Study participants (n = 52)

Liver (n = 62)

Liver (obesity) (n = 40)

Men

Women

p

Men

Women

p

Men

Women

p

(n = 24)

(n = 28)

(n = 17)

(n = 45)

(n = 6)

(n = 34)

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Chronological age

35.0

10.6

32.9

5.7

0.36

55.6

17.3

45.2

10.3

0.01

51.2

10.0

43.6

8.9

0.07

BMI

54.4

9.1

48.9

7.2

0.02

35.9

14.4

43.7

12.3

0.04

54.1

4.7

49.5

6.8

0.12

  1. Data are expressed as mean and standard deviation (SD). Liver and liver (obesity) refer to publicly available data (GSE48325) [27] and a subset of subjects with BMI > 40 kg/m2, respectively. p stands for p values obtained in Student’s t test. BMI body mass index