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Table 1 Characteristics of Patients, Duarte and Controls

From: Deficits of facial emotion recognition and visual information processing in adult patients with classical galactosemia

 

Duarte

Controls

Patients

p-value

n

3

15

22

 

Age: Mean (SD)

33.3 (3.2)

33.1 (11.7)

30.4 (11.1)

0.475

 Median (range)

34.0 (32–37)

32.0 (21–61)

28.5 (16–60)

0.467

Gender = Female (%)

2 (66.7)

10 (66.7)

13 (59.1)

0.903

IQ: Mean (SD)

115 (15)

-

77 (17)

0.028

 Median (range)

108 (105–133)

-

77 (40–112)

0.011

Education subjects (%)

 • School without qualification

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

3 (13.6)

0.380

 • School with qualification

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

2 (9.1)

0.645

 • Vocational

0 (0.0)

9 (60.0)

15 (68.2)

0.872

 • Undergraduate

1 (33.3)

1 (6.7)

2 (9.1)

1.000

 • Postgraduate

2 (66.7)

5 (33.3)

0 (0.0)

0.015

Max. Education parents/ education controls (%)

 

0.383

 • Vocational

0 (0.0)

9 (60.0)

11 (52.4)

0.792

 • Undergraduate

2 (66.7)

1 (6.7)

5 (23.8)

0.397

 • Postgraduate

1 (33.3)

5 (33.3)

5 (23.8)

0.737

  1. SD standard deviation. p-values refer to comparison of patients with controls, significant values are in bold. The Student’s t-test was used for mean comparison and the Wilcoxon rank-sum test for median comparison. Chi-squared test was used for categorical variables. See methods section for description of the levels of education