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.