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Table 1 Participants’ characteristics

From: Effects of oral contraceptive use on muscle strength, muscle thickness, and fiber size and composition in young women undergoing 12 weeks of strength training: a cohort study

Group

non-OC (n = 40)

OC (n = 34)

p-value

Age (years)

25.00 ± 4.56

22.39 ± 2.30

0.016

Height (m)

1.64 ± 0.05

1.67 ± 0.06

0.340

Weight (kg)

61.14 ± 8.36

63.89 ± 9.44

0.620

BMI (kg/cm2)

22.69 ± 1.73

22.91 ± 2.68

0.993

  1. Non-OC, women not taking oral contraceptives; OC, women taking oral contraceptives; BMI, body mass index. Values are presented as means ± standard deviations
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