Influence of Gender on Cardiac and Encephalic Inflammation in the Elderly with Cysticercosis: A Case Control Study

Table 1

Heart and brain weight according to gender of the elderly and non-elderly patients with cysticercosis.

Groups	Gender	Heart weight (g)	Brain weight (g)
		Mean ± SD
Elderly		347.2 ± 121.9	1216.1 ± 158.2
Nonelderly		370.1 ± 102.8	1228.3 ± 131.3
		𝑡, 𝑃>0,05	𝑡, 𝑃>0,05
Elderly	Female	299.8 ± 65.7	1231.0 ± 204.9
	Male	360.0 ± 149.8	1261.1 ± 107.9
Non-elderly	Female	336.6 ± 107.0	1166.7 ± 84.2^1
	Male	395.2 ± 103.6	1313,6 ± 155.3^2
		𝐹, 𝑃>0.05	𝐹, 𝑃<0.05

SD: standard deviation. 𝑡: Student’s 𝑡-test; 𝐹: Anova; 1 × 2 Bonferroni test, 𝑃<0.05.