Table 5.
Tryptophan (Trp) comparisons by diagnosis, adjusting for post-conceptional age (PCA) and postmortem interval (PMI)
TRP | ||
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Adjusted Mean (Standard Error) | P-value of Pair-wise Comparisons between Groups of Interest1 | |
SIDS cases | 52.1 (2.8) | SIDS vs. AC (0.999) SIDS vs. CC (1.000) SIDS vs. AA (1.000) SIDS vs. RSIDS (0.985) SIDS vs. UND (0.975) AC vs. CC (1.000) AC vs. AA (0.999) |
Acute Controls (AC) | 55.0 (6.6) | |
Chronic Controls (CC) | 50.1 (14.2) | |
Acute Asphyxia (AA) | 51.2 (7.2) | |
Resuscitated SIDS (RSIDS) | 45.8 (9.0) | |
Undetermined cases(UND) | 47.0 (6.2) |
Legend: A Tukey-Kramer adjustment was used to account for the multiple comparisons. The p-values are presented in the brackets. There was no difference in TRP levels between SIDS and non-SIDS (AC, CC, and AA groups combined) (p-value=0.999). Abbreviation: vs., versus.