Table 2.

Spearman's correlation coefficients for absolute NKT cell numbers with respect to clinical and laboratory findings in 73 TB patients

Variable	Correlation coefficient (γ)	P value
Age (yr)	−0.129	0.279
Body mass index (kg/m2)	0.142	0.354
Smoking (no. of pack-years)	−0.164	0.175
Hemoglobin concn (g/dl)	0.208	0.077
Leukocyte count (cells/μl)	−0.185	0.117
Lymphocyte count (cells/μl)	0.361	0.002
Platelet count (103 cells/μl)	−0.075	0.531
CRP concn (mg/dl)	−0.428	<0.001