Establishment of the MethyLight Assay for Assessing Aging, Cigarette Smoking, and Alcohol Consumption

Table 2

Subject characteristics.

	Healthy donors	Patients with MI
Male/female	22/11	4/3
Age, M/F (years)	52.8 ± 19.2/56.0 ± 20.0	71.6 ± 10.4/73.1 ± 10.2
Height, M/F (cm)	167.4 ± 10.9/156.9 ± 4.9	162.8 ± 5.0/148.7 ± 6.0
Weight, M/F (kg)	66.0 ± 11.7/50.6 ± 6.0	62.1 ± 8.3/57.7 ± 13.6
BMI, M/F	23.3 ± 2.5/20.6 ± 2.4	23.6 ± 4.4/26.0 ± 4.9
Smoking history, M/F
Never	10/9	4/3
Past	6/1	0/0
Current	6/1	0/0
Habitual alcohol drinking, M/F
Never	8/4	0/0
Occasional	0/0	0/0
Habitual	14/7	0/0

Values are expressed as mean ± SD.
Smoking history categories: never, past smoker (more than two months without smoking), and current smoker (average cigarettes/day: 22 ± 8).
Alcohol drinking history categories: never drinking, occasional drinking (less than 40 g/week of alcohol consumption), and habitual drinking (more than 40 g/week of alcohol consumption).