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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the study subjects

From: MCT-modified ketogenic diet as an adjunct to standard treatment regimen could alleviate clinical symptoms in women with endometriosis

variables		Groups		P-Value^*
variables		MCT-modified KD (n = 25)	control (n = 25)	P-Value^*
Age (years)		27 ± 4	29 ± 4	0.1^a
weight (kg)		60.3 ± 8.4	61.4 ± 6.3	0.65^a
Height (cm)		163 ± 7	163 ± 6	0.87^a
Marital status	married	22 (88%)	21 (84%)	0.68^b
Marital status	divorced	3 (12%)	4 (16%)	0.68^b
Education	Diploma and lower	5 (20%)	6 (24%)	0.73^c
Education	Bachler and higher	20 (80%)	19 (76%)	0.73^c
occupation	Housewife	8 (32%)	4 (16%)	0.4^b
	Employee	11 (44%)	13 (52%)
	Self-employed	6 (24%)	8 (32%)
Socio-economic status	High	13 (52%)	10 (40%)	0.39^c
Socio-economic status	moderate	12 (48%)	15 (60%)	0.39^c
Endometriosis grade	grade 1	9 (47%)	13 (52%)	0.76^c
Endometriosis grade	grade 2	10 (53%)	12 (48%)	0.76^c

Data are presented as mean ± SD for quantitative and frequency (%) for qualitative variables
KD ketogenic diet
^*based on ^aindependent sample t test, ^bchi-square, and ^cmann-whithney test

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