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. 2014 Dec 29;9(12):e116174. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116174

Table 4. Hematology before and 5 min after lower body negative pressure (post-LBNP) was ceased because of presyncopal symptoms.

Baseline Post-LBNP P-value
Platelets (106 µl−1) 239±32 272±19* 0.014
White blood cells (106 µl−1) 6.9 [5.2–9.6] 8.8 [6.6–10.3]* 0.016
Lymphocytes (%) 1.9 [1.4–2.7] 2.4 [2.2–3.1]* 0.016
Monocytes (%) 0.56±0.15 0.65±0.17* <0.001
Basophiles (%) 0.06 [0.03–0.07] 0.07 [0.04–0.11]* 0.016
Hematocrit (%) 36.9±3.0 40.4±4.5* 0.005
Red blood cells (109 µl−1) 4.3±0.5 4.7±0.5* 0.002
Hemoglobin (g dl−1) 12.7 [10.8–13.9] 13.9 [11.6–15.8]* 0.016

Mean±SD and median [range], n = 7, * significantly different from baseline, using the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure with a false discovery rate of 0.05.