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Table 1 Demographic characteristic of the cancer-bearing dogs and clinically normal dogs

From: Oxidative stress in cancer-bearing dogs assessed by measuring serum malondialdehyde

Variables

Cancer-bearing dogs

(N = 80)

Clinically normal dogs

(N = 101)

p-valuea

Age, mean ± SD (range), yrs

9.06 ± 3.12 (2–15)

5.05 ± 2.20 (2–12)

<0.001

Weight, mean ± SD (range), kg

20.20 ± 11.87 (4.2-49.2)

20.89 ± 9.24 (4.8-40.4)

0.663

Breed, no. (%)

  

0.003

Mixed

33 (41.25%)

65 (64.36%)

 

Pure breed

47 (58.75%)

36 (35.67%)

 

Sex, no. (%)

0.428

Male

26 (32.50%)

38 (37.62%)

 

Female

54 (67.50%)

63 (62.38%)

 
  1. aAge and weight by Independent Sample t-test; breed by Chi-square test.