Table 6.

Immunophenotyping and enumeration of lymphocytes subsets in both groups at baseline

	Case	Control	p valuea
No. of total T lymphocytes (cells/μL)	1,219.9 ± 441.8	1,285.7 ± 401.6	0.369
% of total T lymphocytes	61.6 ± 10.4	62.9 ± 9.9	0.490
No. of T suppressor (cells/μL)	424.4 ± 204.8	439.1 ± 201.1	0.716
% of T suppressor lymphocytes	21.8 ± 8.6	21.8 ± 7.3	0.981
No. of T helper lymphocytes (cells/μL)	719.8 ± 264.9	783.6 ± 280.1	0.184
% of T helper lymphocytes	37.2 ± 8.7	39.0 ± 8.6	0.291
No. of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (cells/μL)	11.3 ± 11.4	14.6 ±14.4	0.201
% of cytotoxic T lymphocytes	0.51 ± 0.72	0.70 ± 0.87	0.249
T helper/suppressor ratio	2.1 ± 1.3	2.1 ± 1.1	0.972
No. of natural killer cells (cells/μL)	466.6 ± 327.3	460.1 ± 315.2	0.923
% of natural killer cells	22.5 ± 10.7	20.9 ± 9.5	0.423
No. of B lymphocytes (cells/μL)	296.2 ± 166.3	321.2 ± 182.6	0.455
% of B lymphocytes	14.6 ± 6.2	14.9 ± 5.2	0.754
No. of lymphocytes (cells/μL)	1,999.3 ± 648.7	2,075.5 ± 683.9	0.566

^aIndependent samples t test was used to compare the differences between the two groups