Table 1.
Summary of demographic and clinical variables.
| SCD (N = 18, 8 F) |
ACTL (N = 10, 7 F) |
t | p | d | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | ||||
| Age (yrs) | 21.2 +/− 8.3 | 25.5 +/− 7.5 | −1.41 | 0.17 | −0.54 |
| Height (cm) | 161.6 +/− 11.3 | 162.8 +/− 10.4 | −0.04 | 0.97 | −0.11 |
| Weight (kg) | 57.3 +/− 9.5 | 60.5 +/− 17.3 | −0.62 | 0.54 | −0.23 |
| BMI | 23.0 +/− 5.9 | 22.1 +/− 2.3 | 0.55 | 0.59 | 0.20 |
| SBP | 111.3 +/− 14.2 | 111.5 +/− 10.3 | −0.40 | 0.97 | −0.24 |
| DBP | 62.5 +/− 8.1 | 62.8 +/− 9.0 | −0.13 | 0.89 | −0.03 |
| WBC (K/mcL) | 10.3 +/− 4.6 | 6.6 +/− 2.2 | 2.41 | 0.02 | 1.03 |
| RBC (M/mcL) | 3.2 +/− 0.7 | 3.7 +/− 0.4 | −2.16 | 0.04 | −0.87 |
| Hb (g/dL) | 9.8 +/− 1.8 | 10.0 +/− 1.2 | −0.34 | 0.76 | −0.13 |
| Hbs (g/dL) | 47.4 +/− 29.3 | 0.0 +/− 0.0 | 6.86 | < 0.001 | 1.99 |
| HbF (g/dL) | 6.1 +/− 8.3 | 1.7 +/− 2.5 | 2.41 | 0.04 | 0.67 |
| Hct (%) | 27.9 +/− 4.4 | 30.0 +/− 3.0 | −1.37 | 0.18 | −0.55 |
| MCV (fL) | 89.4 +/− 13.9 | 81.5 +/− 6.0 | 1.71 | 0.10 | 0.73 |
| Plt (K/mcL) | 297.4 +/− 112.7 | 263.0 +/− 114.1 | 0.77 | 0.45 | 0.30 |
| PltVol (fL) | 10.0 +/− 0.8 | 10.6 +/− 1.1 | −1.58 | 0.13 | −0.62 |
| Retic (%) | 9.6 +/− 5.9 | 2.6 +/− 3.2 | 4.08 | < 0.0001 | 1.47 |
Groups: Sickle-Cell Disease (SCD), Anemic Controls (AC), Females (F).
Variables: Body Mass Index (BMI), White Blood Cell count (WBC), Red Blood Cell count (RBC), Heboglobin count (Hb), Hematocrit (Hct), Mean Corpuscular Volume (MCV), Platlet count (Plt), Mean Platlet Volume (PltVol), Reticulocyte Count (Retic).
Statistics: standard deviation (SD), t-value (t), p-value (p), Cohen's d (d).
The bolded numbers represent variables that were significantly different between groups.