Clinical Efficacy of Huangkui Capsule Plus Methylprednisolone for Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy and Its Effect on Renal Function and Serum Inflammatory Factors

Table 1

Patient characteristics [ ± s, n(%)].

	Observation (n = 40)	Experimental (n = 40)	t/x^2	-value
Gender			0.487	0.485
Male	24	27
Female	16	13
Age (year)	21–68	25–71
Mean age (year)	42.84 ± 10.35	43.24 ± 10.59	−0.171	0.865
Disease course (month)	5–57	3–55
Mean disease course (month)	23.48 ± 11.59	22.94 ± 11.46	0.21	0.834