Table 2.
Correlation matrix for RBC shape as a function of RBC parameters in autistic patients.
| RBC variables | Erythrocyte shape class |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disco- | Ellipto- | Echino- | Lepto- | Knizo- | Codo- | Stomato- |
|
| Hb | 0.0159 | 0.1831 | −0.7776* | 0.1151 | 0.6907* | −0.0336 | 0.5855* |
| (0.5452) | (0.9729) | (0.0011) | (0.4698) | (0.0062) | (0.9864) | (0.0278) | |
| MCV | −0.2616 | 0.2063 | −0.0556 | −0.2841 | 0.2308 | 0.1960 | 0.4090 |
| (0.1479) | (0.2834) | (0.8471) | (0.2442) | (0.3414) | (0.4069) | (0.1580) | |
| MCH | −0.0771 | 0.2980 | −0.3959 | −0.1329 | 0.2868 | 0.0847 | 0.4720 |
| (0.6423) | (0.3586) | (0.1732) | (0.4530) | (0.1144) | (0.8030) | (0.1099) | |
| MCHC | 0.2571 | 0.3688 | −0.8379* | −0.0232 | 0.2720 | −0.1233 | 0.6070∗ |
| (0.3502) | (0.1553) | (0.0002) | (0.8842) | (0.2860) | (0.3714) | (0.0214) | |
| RDW | 0.8915* | −0.0476 | −0.4498 | 0.7245* | 0.0357 | −0.8181* | 0.8278* |
| (0.0050) | (0.8806) | (0.0672) | (0.0078) | (0.9516) | (0.0038) | (0.0031) | |
Data are Spearman's rho correlation coefficients with in brackets P values (N = 15). Bold characters with asterisks indicate statistically significant correlations.
Disco-: discocytes; Ellipto-: elliptocytes; Echino-: echinocytes; Lepto-: leptocytes; Knizo-: knizocytes; Codo-: codocytes; Stomato-: stomatocytes; Hb: hemoglobin; MCV: mean corpuscular volume; MCH: mean corpuscular hemoglobin; MCHC: mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration; RDW: red cell distribution width.