. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: Cytokine. 2012 Jun 15;60(1):302–308. doi: 10.1016/j.cyto.2012.05.017

Table 2.

Shows physical and hematologic characteristics of SCA subjects who developed stroke and those did not. Except in levels of white blood cells count (p= 0.040), there was no significant difference between the groups based on all other characteristics.

Characteristics	SCA with Stroke	SCA without Stroke
Number	7	25
Gender (m/f)	4/3	8/17
Age (y) ^a	7.9 ± 3.2	8.5 ± 2.7
Height (m) ^a	1.2 ± 0.2	1.3 ± 0.1
Weight (kg) ^a	24.6 ± 6.5	24.5 ± 6.1
BMI (kg/m²) ^a	15.9 ± 1.8	15.1 ± 1.2
Platelet count (×1000/μL) ^a	396 ± 49	417 ± 135
Reticulocytes count (%) ^a	11.5 ± 2.2	11.3 ± 4.1
White Blood Cells count (×1000/μL) ^a	12.7 ± 2.9	10.4 ± 2.3
Hemoglobin level (g/dL) ^a	7.6 ± 0.7	8.0 ± 1.0

Values are means±SD.