Writing and Publishing Scientific Articles Course Workbook

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However, if the units of measure for all the rows in a table are “no. (%),” the units are best given in a spanning column heading (shown below in bold), as follows:

Table 21. Baseline characteristics of patients in the 2 study subgroups

No. patients (%)

Group A (n = 48)

Group B (n = 52) 30 (58)

Characteristic

Men Age

24 (50)

<50 yr ≥50 yr

16 (33) 32 (67)

19 (37) 33 (64)

Tumor classification T1 T2 T3

20 (42) 15 (31) 13 (27) 10 (21) 20 (42) 18 (38)

18 (35) 24 (46) 10 (19) 12 (23) 26 (50) 14 (27)

Histologic subtype Adenocarcinoma Squamous cell carcinoma Other

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