Prevention of disease progression in Leishmania infantum-infected dogs with dietary nucleotides and active hexose correlated compound

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of dogs assigned to each study group, and homogeneity analysis data, expressed as mean ± standard deviation and frequencies (%)

Variable	Supplement group	Placebo group	P-value supplement vs placebo^a
Gender: female, n (%)	10 (50)	7 (31.8)	0.346
Age: months	63.75 ± 33.78	67.36 ± 31.05	0.720
Age groups: n (%)			1.000
< 3 years	3 (15)	3 (13.6)
3 to 8 years	13 (65)	15 (68.2)
> 8 years	4 (20)	4 (18.2)
Clinical score: points	0.80 ± 1.28	0.95 ± 1.73	0.756
ELISA serology: arbitrary units	3.31 ± 1.53	2.38 ± 1.46	0.054
RT-PCR: parasites/ng of DNA	0.22 ± 0.54	0.66 ± 1.89	0.420
Body temperature: °C	38.33 ± 0.49	38.40 ± 0.41	0.590
Weight: kg	27.90 ± 12.10	25.78 ± 15.11	0.621

^aP-values were calculated with Student’s t-test for quantitative variables and Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables

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