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Table 1 Comparison of characteristics between young and elderly women.

From: Aging deteriorated perception of urge-to-cough without changing cough reflex threshold to citric acid in female never-smokers

 

Young

Elderly

P-value

Number

14

12

 

Age (years)

24.6 ± 3.9

85.6 ± 7.1

< 0.0001

Barthel index (scores)

100 ± 0

43.2 ± 22.2

< 0.0001

MMSE (points)

30 ± 0

16.8 ± 8.9

< 0.0001

  1. Data are mean ± S.D. P-value by the Mann-Whitney U test. MMSE denotes mini-mental state examination.
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