The Development and Application Evaluation of Meridian Energy Detection System in Traditional Oriental Medicine: A Preliminary Study

Table 4

Baseline assessment.

Parameters	Male		Female		P value
Sample Size	13		30
	Mean	s.d.	Mean	s.d.
Age (years)	26.15	6.97	23.27	2.94	0.1725
Body Height (m)	1.70	0.04	1.60	0.06	>0.0001
Body Weight (kg)	61.8	9.91	54.36	6.38	0.0100
BMI	21.42	3.10	21.21	2.17	0.8167
Body Temperature (°C)	35.55	0.71	35.38	0.68	0.3342
Left Middle Finger Temperature (°C)	35.81	2.46	33.93	4.43	0.0173

The values represent the mean difference between the genders.
The statistical significance is indicated with for p <0.05.
s.d. = standard deviation.