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

Table 2

Comparison of the inflammatory infiltrate in relation the evolutionary stage of the cysticerci in brain of non-elderly and elderly patients with cysticercosis.

Groups	Vesicular stage	Colloidal vesicular stage	Granular nodular stage	Nodular calcified stage
	Median (minimum–maximum)
Elderly	1.0 (1.0–4.0)	3.0 (1.0–12.0)	2.0 (1.0–6.0)	1.0 (1.0–3.0)
Non-elderly	1.0 (1.0–6.0)	4.0 (1.0–18.0)	2.5 (1.0–8.0)	2.0 (1.0–5.0)
	𝑇, 𝑃>0.05	𝑇, 𝑃<0.05	𝑇, 𝑃<0.05	𝑇, 𝑃>0.05

𝑇: Mann-Whitney test.