The Prevalence of Giardia Intestinalis in Dyspeptic and Diabetic Patients

Table 1

The demographic characteristics of study groups.

	The patients with dyspepsia	The patients with D. mellitus	Healthy controls
Age (mean ± SD)	41.47±13.48	54.45±11.92	46.51±15.74
Total number (𝑛)	200	200	100
Female sex (𝑛%)	146 (73%)	121 (60.5%)	74 (74%)
Male sex (𝑛%)	54 (27%)	79 (39.5%)	26 (26%)