Effectiveness of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Liver Protection and Chemotherapy Completion among Cancer Patients

Table 4

Mean AST and ALT values by case-control status.

	Case (n = 42)		Control (n = 142)		t	P
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
AST before chemotherapy	26.55	16.04	24.76	10.09	−0.82	.41
AST during chemotherapy	24.12	5.37	29.20	20.07	2.61	.01
AST after chemotherapy	25.49	7.73	26.67	14.32	0.50	.61
ALT before chemotherapy	24.17	15.34	22.70	15.65	−0.53	.59
ALT during chemotherapy	22.60	6.97	26.33	20.90	1.76	.08
ALT after chemotherapy	24.74	15.88	24.35	17.08	−0.13	.89

t is the statistical value from Student's; t-test; the P-value is the probability assuming that the null hypothesis is true (two-tailed test); the significance level was set to P < .05.