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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: The impact of sex on brain responses to smoking cues: a perfusion fMRI study

 

All

Males

Females

p

 

N = 51

n = 31

n = 20

 

Race (%)

    

White

35 (69)

22 (71)

13 (65)

0.60

Black

11 (22)

7 (23)

4 (20)

 

Other

5 (9)

2 (6)

3 (15)

 

Means ± (SEMs)

Age

34.2 (1.6)

36.2 (2.0)

30.9 (2.5)

0.10

Education

14.4 (0.3)

14.3 (0.3)

14.7 (0.6)

0.52

Cigarettes per day

15.6 (0.8)

16.9 (1.0)

13.6 (1.2)

0.04*

Pack yearsa

12.5 (1.6)

15.2 (2.4)

8.4 (1.6)

0.04*

FTND scores

4.5 (0.2)

4.7 (0.3)

4.3 (0.5)

0.44

Craving scoresb

0.8 (0.2)

0.8 (0.3)

0.9 (0.4)

0.93

  1. * p < 0.05.
  2. aPack years calculation: Cigarettes per day (÷) cigarettes in a pack (X) years smoking.
  3. bCraving scores calculation: Post-SC video craving score – Pre-SC video craving score.
  4. FTND = Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence; FTND scores ranged from 1 to 9.